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“High birth may be a pearl of lustre, but let thine effort be To rise by deeds. Distinct is greatness from birth and pedigree.
— Hafez
Persian poet
A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911), p. 99, Ode 104 (Bicknell)
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