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Be aristocracy the only joy:
Let commerce perish--let the world expire.
Be aristocracy the only joy:
Let commerce perish--let the world expire.
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your read more
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces
the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces
the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
A noble pair of brothers.
[Lat., Par nobile fratum.]
A noble pair of brothers.
[Lat., Par nobile fratum.]
Ay, these look like the workmanship of heaven;
This is the porcelain clay of human kind,
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Ay, these look like the workmanship of heaven;
This is the porcelain clay of human kind,
And therefore cast into these noble moulds.
Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds.
Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds.
Whoe'er amidst the sons
Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue,
Displays distinguished merit, is a noble
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Whoe'er amidst the sons
Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue,
Displays distinguished merit, is a noble
Of Nature's own creating.
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire