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Quote by Nicholas Boileau
If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant

If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires. – Nicholas Boileau

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They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy. – James Russell Lowell

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Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons cant sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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