A noble pair of brothers.
[Lat., Par nobile fratum.]

A noble pair of brothers.
[Lat., Par nobile fratum.]

Fond man! though all the heroes of your line
Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine
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Fond man! though all the heroes of your line
Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine
In proud display; yet take this truth from me--
Virtue alone is true nobility!

Be aristocracy the only joy:
Let commerce perish--let the world expire.

Be aristocracy the only joy:
Let commerce perish--let the world expire.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

Better not to be at all
Than not to be noble.

Better not to be at all
Than not to be noble.

The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount.

The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount.

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.

There are obligations to nobility.
[Lat., Noblesse oblige.]

There are obligations to nobility.
[Lat., Noblesse oblige.]

This was the noblest Roman of them all.
All the conspirators save only he
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This was the noblest Roman of them all.
All the conspirators save only he
Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;
He, only in a general honest thought
And common good to all, made one of them.