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"There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue." »Tom Robbins
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"All governments eventually lean further and further towards aristocracy." »Frank Herbert, Dune
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"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents." »Thomas Jefferson
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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." »G. C. Lichtenberg
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"There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob." »G. K. Chesterton
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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 Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"Class has a sense of humor. It knows that a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the machinery of human relations. Class never makes excuses. It takes its lumps and learns from past mistakes. Class bespeaks an aristocracy unrelated to ancestors or money. Some extremely wealthy people have no class at all, while others who are struggling to make ends meet are loaded with it. Class is real. You can't fake it. Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not attempt to look better by making others look worse. Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because he is comfortable with himself. If you have class, you've got it made. If you don't have class, no matter what else you have, it won't make up for it." »Ann Landers
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