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I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts. – Oliver Goldsmith

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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond. – Oliver Goldsmith

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I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for Tis only to them that they are blessings. – Mary Wortley Montagu

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A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror — and they last longer. – David Lloyd George

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All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast. – Johann von Goethe

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