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“Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them. The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain. But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)

“More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.”

“In spite of its glowing talk about the welfare of the masses, Communism's methods and philosophy strip man of his dignity and worth, leaving him as little more than a depersonalized cog in the ever-turning wheel of the state.”

Men Littles States Philosophy Mass Dignity Method Leaving Communism Welfare Wheels Spite Glowing Cogs Leaving Him

Book:I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr

Source: I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr

“If you want to know how little your dignity is worth, take it to the pawnbroker.”

Ifs Knows Want Littles Know How Dignity

Author:Evan Esar

“I would never behave with so little dignity. Nor would I wish to be confronted in such a manner by anyone else. Vampires inspire screams, not squees. Involuntary urination is common, I grant, but it properly flows from a sense of terror, not an ecstatic sense of hero worship.”

Littles Wish Common Inspire Hero Worship Flow Dignity Terror Vampire Behave Grants Scream Ecstatic Involuntary Hero Worship

Book:Hammered (with bonus short story): The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Three

Source: Hammered (with bonus short story): The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Three

“Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.”

Men Littles Has Beens Hard Government Spirit Dignity Perseverance Oppression Foam Insolence

Book:Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen

Source: Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen