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— Edmund Burke"Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order."
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The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.
— Mark Twain
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It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.
— W. H. Auden
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