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There is no caste in blood. - Sir Edwin Arnold Was the blood which has been shed then so pure? [Fr., Le sand qui vient de se repandre, est-il done si pur?] - Antoine Barnave, on hearing a criticism of the murder of Foulon and Bartier Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame. - Dante ("Dante Alighieri"), The Divine Comedy (Purgatory, canto XXX, l. 46-48) Blood follows blood. - Daniel Defoe I think it's liquid aggravation that circulates through his veins, and not regular blood. - Charles Dickens Noble blood! bah! What blood is more noble or so pure as that of the lion? And yet he is only a brute. It is merit, education and virtue, not blood, that lift men above the level of the brutes. - Michael le Faucheur Blood is a juice of rarest quality. [Ger., Blut ist ein ganz beondrer Saft.] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (I, 4, 214) Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood. - James Russell Lowell Blood alone moves the wheels of history. - Benito Mussolini Blud's thicker than water. - Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering (ch. XXXVIII) Blood is thicker than water. - attributed to Commodore Josiah Tattnall, see 11th ed. of Encyclopedia Britannica Hands across the sea, Feet on English ground, The old blood is bold blood, the wide world round. - Byron Webber, Hands Across the Sea
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