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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."
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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."
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"We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy."
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"Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers."
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"The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country."
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"We must powder our wigs, that is why so many poor people have no bread."
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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."
Man
"Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me."
Nature
"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own."
Time
"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."
People
"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."
Nature
"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"
Experience
"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."
Virtue
"There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking."
People
"He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals."
Love
"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents."
Character
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