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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.

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David Lloyd George

PoliticianBritish1863 · 19th century

4.5 · 21 votes · 100 reads

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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.

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Georg C. Lichtenberg

ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

4.4 · 63 votes · 130 reads

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All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

4.0 · 30 votes

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

Norman Vincent Peale

AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

3.7 · 50 votes

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It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good, and less trouble!

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WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

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Lords are lordliest in their wine.

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PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

3.4 · 46 votes · 105 reads

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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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PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

3.4 · 24 votes

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Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

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NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

3.8 · 33 votes · 186 reads

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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

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PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

4.0 · 20 votes · 188 reads

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

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Vincent van Gogh

PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

3.8 · 38 votes · 139 reads

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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
PoetIrish1854 · 19th century
3.4 · 12 votes · 120 reads
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