Quote by Nancy Mitford
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been

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

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The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness. – Nancy Mitford

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What is the use of your pedigrees? – Juvenal

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Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third. – Vicomte De Chateaubriand

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Lords are lordliest in their wine. – John Milton

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It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good — and less trouble! – Mark Twain

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