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I always have to get my U.K. fix, and 'Downton Abbey' is definitely that. I absolutely love period dramas, but this one is particularly appealing - following the ins and outs of aristocracy as well as the interaction between the rich and the poor.

~Estelle

Topics: Abbey Absolutely Always Appealing Aristocracy Between Definitely Downton Abbey Dramas Fix Following Get Interaction Love Particularly Period Poor Rich Well

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We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

~Ezra Stiles

Topics: Aristocracy Better Better Chance Chance Elective Hereditary Monarchy Stand Than Whether

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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.

~Georg C. Lichtenberg

Topics: Abolish Acquire Actual Any Aristocracy Cannot How Law Who

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We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

~George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Aristocracy Money Only Real World

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If the aristocracy of the whole white race is so to melt in a world of the colored races of the Earth, I for one should only rejoice in such a divine triumph of the sacrificial idea in history; for it would mean the humanization of mankind.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Aristocracy Colored Divine Earth History Idea Mankind Mean Melt Only Race Races Rejoice Should Triumph White Whole World Would

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Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

~George Jean Nathan

Topics: Aristocracy Bourgeoisie Common Common People Common Sense Exists Far Nonsense People Privilege Sense World Worries

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