The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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