Psh! an apoplexy, as you say, on all the dignities you can enumerate.

There is more dignity in a poor patient ass toiling along a rough road under a brutal burden that in the entire human race put together, from Adam to myself.

The conception of dignity is notional, most entirely.

I never see a poor wretch of a general, or king, or any such animal, adorned in his toggery of dignity without laughing at him, and his dignity again leads him to suppose that my smile is the result of the pleasurable sensations his experience excites in me.

Nature has dignity at times; some animals have it; but man, never.