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You are new here, so I will explain. In this land, nobility comes not from one__ fathers or a title or from the land one owns, but from one__ actions._ His voice was hard-edged, and his words seemed harsh to her. __he MacKinnon brothers are the highest nobility to those who live on the frontier__rue warriors, men who know how to fight and survive, men who put the lives of others before their own. Your family__ wealth, your title, your virtue__hey mean nothing out here. They won__ fill your belly, and they won__ keep you alive. What matters most right now is your survival. (Joseph to Lady Sarah)

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Love and honor. They are the two great things, and now they__e dimmed and blighted. Today, love is just sex and sentimentality. Love is really a recognition of truth, a recognition of another person__ integrity and truth in a way that is compatible with _ that makes both of you light up when you recognize the quality in the other. That__ what love is. It__ a recognition of singularity_ And love is giving and giving and giving _ not looking for any return. Until you do that, you can__ love.

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Robert Graves

Conversations with Robert Graves

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[A man] finds himself forced by necessity to borrow money. He knows that he will not be able to repay it, but sees also that nothing will be lent to him unless he promises stoutly to repay it in definite time. He desires to make this promise, but he has still so much conscience as to ask himself: Is it not unlawful and inconsistent with duty to get out of a difficulty in this way? Suppose, however, that he resolves to do so, then the maxim of his action would be expressed thus: When I think myself in want of money, I will borrow money and promise to repay it, although I know that I never can do so. Now this principle of self-love or of one's own advantage may perhaps be consistent with my whole future welfare; but the question now is, Is it right? I change then the suggestion of self-love into a universal law, and state the question thus: How would it be if my maxim were a universal law? Then I see at once that it could never hold as a universal law of nature, but would necessarily contradict itself. For supposing it to be a universal law that everyone when he thinks himself in a difficulty should be able to promise whatever he pleases, with the purpose of not keeping his promise, the promise itself would become impossible, as well as the end that one might have in view in it, since no one would consider that anything was promised to him, but would ridicule all such statements as vain pretenses.

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Immanuel Kant

Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

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Enough,' said Mercedes, 'enough Edmond! Believe me that she who alone recognized you has been the only one to comprehend you. And had she crossed your path, and you had crushed her like a frail glass, still, Edmond, still she must have admired you! Like the gulf between me and the past, there is an abyss between you, Edmond, and the rest of mankind; and I tell you freely, that the comparison I drew between you and other men will be one of my greatest tortures. No! there is nothing in the world to resemble you in worth and goodness!

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Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo