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George Washington, 1732-1799

was a First president of US

Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!

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Harriet (Elizabeth) Beecher Stowe, 1811-1896

was an US abolitionist and novelist

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832

was a German dramatist, novelist, poet, and scientist

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

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Frank Lloyd Wright, 1869-1959

was an US architect

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

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Friedrich (Wilhelm) Nietzsche, 1844-1900

was a German philosopher

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right — especially when one is right.

( “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, 1883 - 1885 )

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