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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can

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. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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What is the use of your pedigrees? – Juvenal

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