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Aristocracies often commit very tyrannical and very inhuman actions; but they rarely entertain grovelling thoughts; and they show a kind of haughty contempt of little pleasures, even whilst they indulge in them.

From Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Reeves, Henry

Aristocracies have their faults, but they outlast every other kind of government, and therefore are objects of reverence to all who love order.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

All this may have taught us, That False Aristocracies are insupportable; that No-Aristocracies, Liberty-and-Equalities are impossible; that true Aristocracies are at once indispensable and not easily attained.

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas

Aristocracies are always money-seekers, and often money-grubbers; and they plunder all whom they have the power to spoil.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various

Aristocracies seldom make alliances out of their order, except to gain wealth.

From Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development by Galton, Francis, Sir