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Quote by Alexander Smith
If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death. – Alexander Smith

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