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

"There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity."

"There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect."

"There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble."

"Dignity is an inherent value and human virtue which represents the best of mankind."

"Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself."

"Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity."
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"On the day the tree bloomed in the fall, when its white apple blossoms fell and covered the ground like snow, it was tradition for the Waverleys to gather in the garden like survivors of some great catastrophe, hugging one another, laughing as they touched faces and arms, making sure they were all okay, grateful to have gotten through it."

"A hummingbird cake, she decided as she turned on the kitchen light. It was made with bananas and pineapples and pecans and had a cream cheese frosting.She would make it light enough to float away.She reached over to open the window. To float to her daughter."

"Mary had become anxious in her old age, and she hated being away from the house for long. She'd hold the girls' hands tightly and calm herself by telling them what she would make for first frost that year - pork tenderloins with nasturtiums, dill potatoes, pumpkin bread, chicory coffee. And the cupcakes, of course, with all different frostings, because what was first frost without frosting? Claire had loved it all, but Sydney had only listened when their grandmother talked of frosting. Caramel, rosewater - pistachio, chocolate almond."

"Agatha had declared that her friendship to Georgie still existed, as if it was a living, breathing thing, something that came to life the moment it happened and didn't just go away because they no longer acknowledged it."

"Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still so many more books to read. I'm a work in progress."

"It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways."

"But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling"
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