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In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature. ↗

— Jack Miller

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At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues. ↗

— Gabriela Mistral

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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

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Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. ↗

— Confucius

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Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

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He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. ↗

— John Fletcher

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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose. ↗

— A. P. Herbert

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