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“Nobility is the one only virtue.”
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- Source:
- Satire viii. 20.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5b5ab95beb977d150decb9693ce7b56726812426ab1a531041ac23f8bb4d4388
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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