“My honor is dearer to me than my life.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 1.
“Some men who are not real men love other things about themselves, but the real man believes that his honor is dearer than his life; and a nation is merely all of us put together, and the nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort and the nation's peace and the nation's life itself.”
Speech in Cleveland http://books.google.com/books?id=o3j10P6YFZIC&pg=PA1090&dq=%22nation's+honor+is+dearer+than+the+nation's+comfort%22 (January 1916) <br class="br">1910s
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“Ah, dearer than my soul…
Dearer than light, or life, or fame.”
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Lament for Saul and Jonathan; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).