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The Marquis behaved admirably to his wife; he saw to it that her drawing-room was adequately filled; not with peers, he found his new colleagues scarcely noble enough to come to his house as friends, nor entertaining enough to be admitted as subordinates.

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I wrote about Emily Apt who initially became a caseworker in the welfare system because she decided that was the most noble thing she could do, but quickly learned, not only did she not like it, but she wasn't really good at it.

And I said, "Well it's odd that you've learned of this as a noble kind of pursuit, but yeah, I know those guys."

One great challenge of modern life is to find the staircase amid all the clutter and then to do something good and noble once you climb to the top.

But if you can't win, then you should fight for a noble cause, because then you'll be remembered.

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