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Quote by Nicholas Boileau
Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have

Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. – Nicholas Boileau

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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. – Calvin Coolidge

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The post of honor is a private station. – Joseph Addison

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Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. – Joseph Addison

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