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" Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. "

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" To innovate is not to reform. "

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" But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. "