I would always rather be happy than dignified.

“Si poate ca si el avusese dreptate, cunoscandu-se cum se cunoastea, sa se abtin…”

“For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as…”

“Mr. Rochester continued to be blind the first two years of our union; perhaps i…”

“To live amidst general regard, though it be but the regard of working people, i…”