Aristocracy has three successive ages, - the age of superiorities, the age of privileges, and the age of vanities; having passed out of the first, it degenerates in the second, and dies away in the third. (François-René de Chateaubriand)

Aristocracy has three successive ages, - the age of superiorities, the age of privileges, and the age of vanities; having passed out of the first, it degenerates in the second, and dies away in the third.

François-René de Chateaubriand

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