141 Quotes About Nobility
- Author Dejan Stojanovic
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Nobility is not only in forgiveness.
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- Author Nathaniel Hawthorne
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It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts; as was Hepzibah of this native inapplicability, so to speak, of the Pyncheons to any useful purpose.
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- Author Sappho
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Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.
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- Author George Orwell
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The class-struggle is the main source of progress, and therefore the nobleman who robs the peasant and goads him to revolt is playing a necessary part, just as much as the Jacobin who guillotines the nobleman.
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- Author Idries Shah
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No duty is ignoble. What can be ignoble is the sight of people trying not to be ignoble.
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- Author Peter David
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Noblest. Bravest. What rot. There was no bravery in buying oneself out of difficulty.
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- Author Ziad K. Abdelnour
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There isn’t anything noble about being superior to another person. True nobility is in being superior to the person you once were.
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- Author Ken Liu
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Platitude or not, the crowd erupted into applause, and by acclamation, Kuni Garu became the Duke of Zudi. A few pointed out that titles of nobility really couldn't be handed out in such a democratic fashion, but these killjoys were ignored.
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- Author Socrates
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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