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“`Bourgeois', I observed, `is an epithet which the riff-raff apply to what is respectable, and the aristocracy to what is decent.'”
Anthony Hope quotes ( Writer, 1863-1933)

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“The principle feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things -- war and hunger and date rape -- liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things. It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal.”
P. J. O'Rourke quotes (American political commentator,Journalist, Writer and Humorist, b.1947)
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“Antiquity is the aristocracy of history”
Alexandre Dumas Père quotes (French Writer, one of the most prolific and most popular authors of the 19th century, 1802-1870)
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“Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.”
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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 de Tocqueville quotes (French Historian and Political scientist. 1805-1859)

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“An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead”
Nancy Mitford quotes (English Writer sister Jessica Mitford, 1904-1973)
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“The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a privileged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
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“The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes (English Romantic Poet whose passionate search for personal love and social justice was gradually channeled from overt actions into poems that rank with the greatest in the English language. 1792-1822)

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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 quotes (American Journalist, Critic, Essayist and Editor, 1882-1958)

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