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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. ↗

— Lord Acton

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After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

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Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. ↗

— James Thurber

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At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art. ↗

— Brian Eno

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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest. ↗

— Edmund Waller

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