"When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty."

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Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

— Benjamin Disraeli