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Although I do not hold with a hereditary aristocracy and a hereditary royalty and would prefer to favour a meritocracy, one must live among the masses in the midst of their commonness and vulgarity and semi-animality to understand why the higher classes insist on separating themselves from the lower ones.

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 2 : Living in The World > # 557