There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to you previous self.
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The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear.
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