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Quotes from Ivanhoe; A Romance. Vol. II — Walter Scott

1771–1832 Scotland

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Chivalry!—why, maiden, it is the nurse of pure and high affection—the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant—Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.

Ivanhoe; A Romance. Vol. II (1820)

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