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Aristocracy has three successive ages: the age of superiorities, the age of privileges, the age of vanities. Originating in the first, it degenerates in the second and becomes extinct in the third.

François René de Chateaubriand

Quotation #49917

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Mémoires d’Outre Tombe (Memoirs from Beyond the Grave) [1848–1850], bk. 1, ch. 1

Source: Mémoires d’Outre Tombe (Memoirs from Beyond the Grave) [1848–1850], bk. 1, ch. 1

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