Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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Alexis de Tocqueville: "Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse."

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Aristocracy	Banal	Cling	Corpse
Corrupt	Devote	Endless	Energy
Enjoyments	Gnawing	Great	Host
Kept	Leisure	Lost	Nothing
Passionate	Past	Petty	Power
Quite	Still	Things	Thoughts
Vices	Wealth	Worms	Wretchedly

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