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I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts. – Oliver Goldsmith

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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. – Oliver Goldsmith

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They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. – Oliver Goldsmith

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A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror — and they last longer. – David Lloyd George

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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

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What is the use of your pedigrees? – Juvenal

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I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for Tis only to them that they are blessings. – Mary Wortley Montagu

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