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Nothing is
quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost
its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless
leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its
great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past,
and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to
it like worms to a corpse.
-- Alexis De Tocqueville
1805-1859, French Social
Philosopher
It is nobler
to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good --
and less trouble!
-- Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist,
Writer
You should
study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man
about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing
in fiction the English have ever done.
-- Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author,
Wit
Those
comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known,
euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
-- Virginia Woolf
1882-1941, British Novelist,
Essayist
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