Nobility Quotes
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Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies, except North Carolina, were on the whole similar to Virginia in these respects.
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Virtue alone is true nobility.
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Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.
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What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?
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The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.
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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.
