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Nobility is a
graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian
capital of polished society.
-- Edmund Burke
1729-1797, British Political
Writer, Statesman
Real nobility
is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
-- Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential
Writer
Aristocracy
has three successive ages. First superiority s, then
privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the
first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
-- Vicomte De Chateaubriand
1768-1848, French Politician,
Writer
A fully
equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts,
and dukes are just as great a terror -- and they last
longer.
-- David Lloyd George
1863-1945, British Statesman,
Prime Minister
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All that is
noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep
until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet,
Dramatist, Novelist
I have known a
German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish
nobleman with more names than shirts.
-- Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish
Author, Poet, Playwright
There is a
natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are
virtue and talents.
-- Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of
the USA
What is the
use of your pedigrees?
-- Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
Juvenal (c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet
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