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Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two.

John Frederick Boyes
Two, Ciphers, Ancestry
John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.58
Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two.