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Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an impor...

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True worth is being not seeming

The statesman received us with that old-fashioned courtesy for which he is remarkable, and seated us...

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the ...

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Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my...

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It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an au...

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Kelsier exhaled in exasperation. “Elend Venture? You risked your life—risked the plan, and our lives...

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Noble blood is an accident of fortune noble actions characterize the great.

Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?"It was remembered afterwards that when he bent...

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It's not as if we're running a hospital for sick children down here, let's put it that way. Where's ...

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His face frankly displays his suffering, expressing it with a truly royal simplicity. At such moment...

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Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

Well, do you suppose I made up my mind then that what I had seen was something sickening? Not a bit ...

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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

Their arrogance protected them against any liking for their fellow-man, against the slightest intere...

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Marcel ProustIn the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

Miranda nods, because she knows that to be true: noble people don't do things for the money, they si...

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In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.

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SapphoA Garland: The Poems and Fragments of Sappho

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by ...

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When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, E...

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SophoclesSophocles II: Ajax/Women of Trachis/Electra/Philoctetes

Send your noble blood to market and see what it will bring.

Send your noble blood to market and see what it will bring.

Send your noble blood to market and see what it will bring.

Send your noble blood to market and see what it will bring.

Send your noble blood to market and see what it will bring.

Send your noble blood to market and see what it will bring.

Send your noble blood to market and see what it will bring.

Send your noble blood to market and see what it will bring.

I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!

"Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every ma...

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