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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

Edmund Burke
Order, Society, Aristocracy
'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 205
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.