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Actual
aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can
do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire
it.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist,
Satirist
Lords are
lordliest in their wine.
-- John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet
An aristocracy
in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off:
it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
-- Nancy Mitford
1904-1973, British Writer
I hate the
noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles,
and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given
to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.
-- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1689-1762, British Society
Figure, Letter Writer
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Aristocracy is
always cruel.
-- Wendell Phillips
1811-1884, American Reformer,
Orator
A degenerate
nobleman is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but
that which is underground.
-- English Saying
Put more trust
in nobility of character than in an oath.
-- Solon
636?-558? B.C., Greek
Statesman
If, in looking
at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion,
we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and
criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's
failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely
indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a
mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily
temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with
a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be
splendid and idle?
-- William M. Thackeray
1811-1863, Indian-born
British Novelist
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