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Aristocracies or oligarchies have the same tendency and even in a greater degree.

From Concerning Justice by Emery, Lucilius A.

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 by Carlyle, Thomas

As for the Girondin Formula, of a respectable Republic for the Middle Classes, all manner of Aristocracies being now sufficiently demolished, there seems little reason to expect that the business will stop there.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

Aristocracies, those children of the established fact, are for epochs of concentration.

From Culture and Anarchy by Arnold, Matthew

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