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I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along with a desire for self-fulfillment.
Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
Nobility more nobly to repay?
O, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!
That very knowing,
Overflowing,
Easygoing
Paladin,
The Duke of Plaza-Toro!
They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves to ...
If you think that nobility consists of having sixteen ancestors rather than merit, great Prince, then you may--and you may also pr ...
What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursue ...
As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,
So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
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The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.
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