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"We must powder our wigs, that is why so many poor people have no bread."
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"Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers."
"We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy."
"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."
"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."
"We must powder our wigs, that is why so many poor people have no bread."
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"If the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage the life and death of Jesus were those of a God."
"To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties."
"I had brought from Paris the national prejudice against Italian music, but I had also received from nature that acute sensibility against which prejudices are powerless. I soon contracted the passion it inspires in all those born to understand it."
"You will never be free as long as there remains one Russian soldier in Poland and your freedom will always be threatened as long as Russia interferes in your affairs."
"Liberty is like those solid and tasty foods or those full-bodied wines which are appropriate for nourishing and strengthening robust constitutions that are used to them, but which overpower, ruin and intoxicate the weak and delicate who are not suited for them."
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