G. C. Lichtenberg: 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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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1 July 1742 - 24 February 1799) was a German scientist, satirist and Anglophile

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האריסטוקרטיה האמיתית לא יכולה להיכרע על ידי כל חוק. כל מה שהחוק יכול לעשות הוא לקבוע כיצד יש להעביר את זה ומי צריך לרכוש אותו.

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