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The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.

~Algernon Sidney

Topics: Aristocracy Best Bin Composed Democracy Governments Monarchy World

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Of course, you wouldn't want to re-create the era of aristocracy; it was a totally unfair era. The finer aspects of it were admirable, and so there's nostalgia for that: the behavior, the values, the cultural sensitivities.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Admirable Aristocracy Aspects Behavior Course Cultural Era Finer Nostalgia Totally Unfair Values Want Were You

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But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe that when you're elected to office, you become some kind of member of the aristocracy, and that anyone who challenges you is attacking you and is unpatriotic. This is foolishness.

~Ben Carson

Topics: About Anyone Aristocracy Attacking Become Believe Both Challenges Democrats Elected Entities Entrenched Foolishness Kind Know Member Office Republicans Republicans And Democrats Some Talking Who You

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I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.

~Caitlin Moran

Topics: Anything Aristocracy Campaign Classes Destroy End Just More Really Upper Want

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In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Aristocracy Being Danger Ethics Glory Literature Subtle Us Well

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The aristocracy in the future is not one of wealth or university education, but the aristocracy of the men who have done something for themselves and their fellow men.

~Charles M. Schwab

Topics: Aristocracy Done Education Fellow Fellow Men Future Men Something Themselves University Wealth Who

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I have always believed that the aristocracy of any country should be the men who have succeeded - the men who have aided in upbuilding their country - the men who have contributed to the efficiency and happiness of their fellow men.

~Charles M. Schwab

Topics: Always Any Aristocracy Believed Country Efficiency Fellow Fellow Men Happiness Men Should Succeeded Who

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I want to play a princess or some woman from royalty or aristocracy. If I get to have an accent, even better. And I want to play a butt-kicking superhero, like Catwoman.

~Christa B. Allen

Topics: Accent Aristocracy Better Even Get Like Play Princess Royalty Some Superhero Want Woman

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I think that, often, actors represent what they're not. You get people who define the aristocracy who are not aristocratic - they're lower-middle class or working class. An awful lot of your so-called angry young actors have grown up in extreme bourgeois comfort. It really is surprisingly common.

~Colin Firth

Topics: Actor Angry Aristocracy Aristocratic Awful Awful Lot Bourgeois Class Comfort Common Define Extreme Get Grown Lot Often People Really Represent So-Called Surprisingly Think Up Who Working Working Class You Young Young Actors Your I Think

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To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.

~Denis Kearney

Topics: Add Aristocracy Bloated Cheap China Despair Despotism Greatest Misery Oldest Our Sent Slave Working World

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