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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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!
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.
Titles are marks of honest men, and wise:
The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
Titles are marks of honest men, and wise:
The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
Better not to be at all
Than not to be noble.
Better not to be at all
Than not to be noble.
This was the noblest Roman of them all.
All the conspirators save only he
Did that they read more
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.
A noble pair of brothers.
[Lat., Par nobile fratum.]
A noble pair of brothers.
[Lat., Par nobile fratum.]
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.
The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.
[Lat., Inquinat egregios adjuncta superbia mores.]
The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.
[Lat., Inquinat egregios adjuncta superbia mores.]
