Quote by Virginia Woolf
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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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There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. – Virginia Woolf

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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly. – Virginia Woolf

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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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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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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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You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done. – Oscar Wilde

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Be open. And then the truth follows. – Gangaji

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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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