Rank is a great beautifier.
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The Lady of Lyons (1838), Act ii, Scene i.Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Love is a great beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott
Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank,
The army of unalterable law.George Meredith
The late Mr. [Carl] Sandburg was a public performer of the first rank ("Ker-oh-seen!" he crooned in one of the first TV pitches for the jet-engine — ole banjo on his knee, white hair mussed by the jet-stream), a poet of the second rank (who can ever forget that feline-footed fog?) and a biographer of awesome badness.
Gore Vidal
Many a man may thank his talent for his rank, but no man has ever been able to return the compliment by thanking his rank for his talent.
Charles Caleb Colton
O great corrector of enormous times,
Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider
Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood
The earth when it is sick, and curest the world
O' the pleurisy of people.John Fletcher
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