#knighthood

I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#attended #awe #became #endowed #greatest