RANK

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1. Rank is a great beautifier.—BULWER-LYTTON, The Lady of Lyons
   

2. The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
   The man's the gowd for a' that.—BURNS, Is There for Honest Poverty
   

3. Every error of the mind is the more conspicuous, and culpable, in proportion to the rank of the person who commits it.—JUVENAL
   

4. That in the captain's but a choleric word,
   Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.—SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure