Quote by Oliver Goldsmith
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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. – Oliver Goldsmith

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She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Aristocracy
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What is the use of your pedigrees? – Juvenal

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Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England. – Virginia Woolf

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Aristocracy

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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Aristocracy

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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