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Be aristocracy the only joy: Let commerce perish--let the world expire.

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.

The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.

Ay, these look like the workmanship of heaven; This is the porcelain clay of human kind, And therefore cast into these noble moulds.

O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.

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

A noble pair of brothers.

Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility!

There are obligations to nobility.

Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds.

Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility.

His nature is too noble for the world. He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for's power to thunder.

This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He, only in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them.

Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.

Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue, Displays distinguished merit, is a noble Of Nature's own creating.

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise: The fool or knave that wears a title lies.