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  1. Nicholas Sparks _ The Last Song

    In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.
    book-quoteinspirationalintegritynobility

  2. Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch

    It's not as if we're running a hospital for sick children down here, let's put it that way. Where's the nobility in patching up a bunch of old tables and chairs? Corrosive to the soul, quite possibly. I've seen too many estates not to know that. Idolatry! Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only-if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn't it? And isn't the whole point of things-beautiful things-that they connect you to some larger beauty? Those first images that crack your heart wide open and you spend the rest of your life chasing, or trying to recapture, in one way or another?
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  3. Charles Dickens _ A Tale of Two Cities

    Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?"It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.
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  4. Jack London _ The Sea Wolf

    Well, I am going to exercise my prerogative of roaring and show you how fares nobility. Watch me.
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  5. Ayn Rand _ Atlas Shrugged

    Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one.
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  6. Ayn Rand _ The Fountainhead

    It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.
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  7. Margaret Atwood _ Hag-Seed

    Miranda nods, because she knows that to be true: noble people don't do things for the money, they simply have money, and that's what allows they to be noble. They don't really have to think about it much; they sprout benevolent acts the way trees sprout leaves.
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  8. Elizabeth Kostova _ The Shadow Land

    He reminded her of the way male lions look sad, as if their nobility is a terrible weight."
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