I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings
of the great, and their mean boast of what their fathers were, while
they themselves are fools effeminate, the scorn of all who know the
worth of mind and virtue.
-- Percival
of the great, and their mean boast of what their fathers were, while
they themselves are fools effeminate, the scorn of all who know the
worth of mind and virtue.
-- Percival
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