The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.

Dick Francis
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  1. Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it. - Mary Ann Shaffer

  2. Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it. - Laura Hillenbrand

  3. Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity growswith the ability to say no to oneself. - Abraham Joshua Heschel

  4. I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane, ' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But go after him; he is now lingering in the passage expecting you - he will make it up.' I have not much pride under such... - Anonymous

  5. I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be. - Roger Zelazny

More Quotes By Dick Francis
  1. Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

  2. One should never assume anything

  3. Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit...

  4. But one discarded dreams and got dressed, and made what one could of the day.

  5. People always kill Caesar. Don't trust anyone.

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