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Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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