Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it. (Robertson Davies)

Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it.

Robertson Davies

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