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“Every noble work is at first impossible.” Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present
“A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“Chivalry!—why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection—the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant—Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best...” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.” Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon
“I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“It was a peasant's house, but in point of hospitality it was equal to a king's.” Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
“A robber is more high-toned than what a pirate is—as a general thing. In most countries they're awful high up in the nobility—dukes and such. ” Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass-conflicts of which till then there was record.” Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
“Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. Noble, even. That ought to count for something.” Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

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