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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching? ↗

— Harriet Martineau

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The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. ↗

— Petrarch

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To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title. ↗

— Albert Pike

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A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. ↗

— Pindar

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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty. ↗

— John Ruskin

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I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable. ↗

— Tupac Shakur

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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. ↗