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Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:

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DIGNITY

It realizes to us what sorry shows and shadows we are. Without our clothes and our pedestals we are poor things and much of a size; our dignities are not real, our pomps are shams. At our best and stateliest we are not suns, as we pretended, and teach, and believe, but only candles; and any bummer can blow us out.
- "The Memorable Assassination"

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