Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lon…

James Thurber
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Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. ✨ James Thurber (1996). James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty), p.1162, Library of America
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