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In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.
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Princes know themselves to be princes, and are not snobs; besides, they believe themselves to be so far above everything that is not of their blood royal that noblemen and commoners appear, in the depths beneath them, to be practically on a level.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.
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Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.
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Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
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It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments.
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Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.
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I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.
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The Monarchy ... is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment
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Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.
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Had been equally obvious. The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organisers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists and professional politicians. These people, whose origins
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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
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History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.
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...which recall(s) a moment in time when raw excess made them a casual aristocracy, apart from the rest of the world.
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[ ... ] Just because a person has a title doesn't make him an aristocrat. Some people are great aristocrats who have no other title than the one that nature has bestowed on them, and others like us, who have nothing but titles, are closer to being pariahs than aristocrats.
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The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.
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Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.
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Remember, nobility knows no race or station. Always judge a man by his heart and actions.
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England was ruled by an aristocracy constantly recruited from parvenus
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Democracy raises up a natural prince for its leader, and aristocracy infuses a princely spirit among the people.
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Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel ... So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where the intellect is directed by the heart.
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Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on his own account, but for the sake of his forefathers. Yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.
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If I were asked where I place the American aristocracy, I should reply without hesitation that it is not composed of the rich, who are united together by no common tie, but that it occupies the judicial bench and the bar.
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Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.
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Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.
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There is ... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents ... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendency.
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The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny
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Royalty mostly seem like members of some anachronistic faith, like the Amish, peculiar in gilded buggies.
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O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
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Aristocracy is always cruel.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.
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The Highland way says it's who you say you love and who you serve, which is of worth. Not some title that is passed down upon you by tradition. That's the English way, and the Lowland way
but who can be born a nobleman? Nobility is earned ... 'Tis our choices that make us.
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The intellect, like all cultural values, has created an aristocracy based on the possession of rational culture and independent of all personal ethical qualities of man. The aristocracy of intellect is hence an unbrotherly aristocracy.
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The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.
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If we're being honest, we don't call ourselves royalty. If we're being honest, we call ourselves timid, confused, and insecure. All our self-loathing and self-promoting is a thin veil covering over our frightening conviction that we are nobodies.
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Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.
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there was only one aristocracy, that of decency, and that this was not inherited or bought with money or titles, but was only gained through good deeds.
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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.
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The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.
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English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.
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Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society's energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings.
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Noble fathers have noble children.
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Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
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As you get older and more successful, you don't get magnetically drawn to aristocracy, you get magnetically drawn to power, and it gets magnetically drawn to you. It's a symbiosis whether you like it or not.
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How terrible it must be to be a member of the noble class. So many rules. Such restraint. You must feel like a caged bird, battering its wings against the sides of its golden prison.
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ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.
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Living a Princely life requires that you learn to think and reason like the Prince, talk and behave like him, react like him as well.
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There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
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We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.
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Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.
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In England, one without a trace of Royalty will master. Twenty months he will rule; twenty months he will bleed the lands, then his end comes quickly.
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My family's a ruling family.
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Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.
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There is Royalty in your DNA
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I was what some foolish persons are pleased to call, and others, more foolish, are pleased to be called - an aristocrat.
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Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy.
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I'm glad I was never an heiress.
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Man,
the aristocrat amongst the animals.
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THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
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We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
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This is a new land - a land of pretension because it is new; because classes and systems have not had that time to grow here naturally. We have no aristocracy but of virtue and talent, which is the only true aristocracy, and is the old and true meaning of the term. (Hear, hear.
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The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge; as the chemicalenergy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.
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They shall wear elegant and ornamented robes, carry a sharp sword at their girdle, pamper themselves in eating and drinking, and have a superabundance of property and wealth; - such (princes) may be called robbers and boasters.
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Many labourers can trace their descent from farmers or well-to-do people, and it is not uncommon to find here and there a man who believes that he is entitled to a large property in Chancery, or elsewhere, as the heir.
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The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.
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Oh my God. I love rich people. And royalty are the best because they're rich people who can't be fires.
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Now tell me, what does that mean to be noble? Your title gives you claim to the throne of our country, but men don't follow titles, they follow courage. Now our people know you. Noble, and common, they respect you. And if you would just lead them to freedom, they'd follow you. And so would I
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Each step in the development of the bourgeoisie was accompanied by a corresponding political advance in that class. An oppressed class under the sway of the feudal nobility, an armed and self-governing association of medieval commune: here independent urban republic (as
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We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
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If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.
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Royalty puts a human face on the operations of government.
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An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned if the accession be sudden, and is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder, people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so.
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There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
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There is no nobility with bad manners.
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Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
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Nice customs curtsy to great kings.
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Aristocrats have heirs, the poor have children, and the rest keep dogs.
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The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.
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Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits eagerly by his palace doors to welcome you, and has prepared a place at the high table, by his side, in the company of the great-souled, honored, and best-beloved.
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Princes have but their titles for their glories,
An outward honor for an inward toil;
And, for unfelt imaginations,
They often feel a world of restless cares.
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He was a noble man, as well as a nobleman." * "Mannerheim did not grow up among the masses, but in a castle.... he was a cosmopolite in the age of nationalism; an aristocrat in the age of democracy; a conservative in the age of revolutions."t
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Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current, directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike all other rivers, it is more grand at its source, than at its termination.
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By faith you need to walk like a king, talk like a king, think like a king, dress like a king, smile like a king. Don't go by what you see. Go by what you know. There is royalty in your DNA. You have the blood of a winner. You were created to reign in life.
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There's no nobility in poverty.
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Tradition is the crown of the tyrant.
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I'm actually as common as mud. I'm not particularly well read, or bred. But the way I look ... I seem to have this sort of 'aristocratic' demeanor.
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This is war. And victory is the only nobility.
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.
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You couldn't get less royal than me.
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I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a squire pulling arrows from his body to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birthright, but is defined by one's actions.
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I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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There isn't anything noble about being superior to another person. True nobility is in being superior to the person you once were.
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Emperor, king, general, duke," he whispered to himself. "These are just labels. Climb up the family tree of any of them high enough and you'll find a commoner who dared to take a chance.
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My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.
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Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.