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«Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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aristocracy, banal, cling, cling to, corpse, corrupt, devote, enjoyments, gnawing, gnaws, host, passionate, petty, worms, wretchedly
«The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions»
«Where a great proportion of the people are suffered to languish in helpless misery, that country must be ill policed, and wretchedly governed: a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Civilization
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languish, languished, languishes, policed, wretchedly
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