• Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.

  Francois René de Chateaubriand
  French poet, writer and politician 1768-1848
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. aristocracy
2. superiority
3. degenerates
4. vanities
5. having
6. passed

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Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third. by : Francois René de Chateaubriand

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