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If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.

Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.

"Leonard Cohen On Poetry, Music And Why He Left The Zen Monastery". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 21, 2016.

Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular.

John Milton (1749). “Poetical works. A new ed. with notes of various authors by Thomas Newton. (With copper-plates.)”, p.249

The only thing a title can buy is a little time-either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it.

John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Workbook: Revised and Updated”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

Nature's first great title--mind.

Richard Dagley, George Croly (1822). “Gems: Principally from the Antique”, p.23