#aristocrat

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved. ↗

— Herbert Read

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Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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