"Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence."
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"Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds."
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"Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy."
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"'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury."
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"To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar."
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"In high vengeance there is noble scorn."
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"It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors."
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"So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic."
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"Often a noble face hides filthy ways."
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"It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth."
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"Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments."
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"Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world."
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"Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants."
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"We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea."
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"I will be brief. Your noble son is mad."
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"The desire for fame tempts even noble minds."
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"There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich."
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"No speech can stain what is noble by nature."
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"Sometimes it’s more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth."
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"To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have."
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