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Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.

Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1804). “The Guardian”, p.178
Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.