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"Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity."

"I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect."

"There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means."

"Some disappointments honor those who inspire them."

"Without pride, man becomes a parasite " and there are already too many parasites."
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"The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity."

"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered."

"What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists."
Fact,

"Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there."
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