In this way, all the world may be an aristocrat, and play the duke among marquises, and the reigning monarch among dukes, if he will only outvie them in tranquillity.
只要在从容上胜过别人,人人都能成为贵族,在侯爵之间做公爵,在公爵之间做君王。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · An Inland Voyage · La Fère of Cursed Memory —