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nobility

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The quality or state of being noble; superiority of mind or of character; commanding excellence; eminence.

The state of being of high rank or noble birth; patrician dignity; antiquity of family; distinction by rank, station, or title, whether inherited or conferred.

Those who are noble; the collictive body of nobles or titled persons in a stste; the aristocratic and patrician class; the peerage; as, the English nobility.

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Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company. Arthur Schopenhauer

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. Stendhal

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Nobility without wealth is more worthless than the seaweed which the tide has left. Latin Proverb

Nobility of soul is more honourable than nobility of birth. Dutch Proverb

Piety, prudence, wit, and civility, are the elements of true nobility. German Proverb

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