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LAW & HISTORY > essayist, historian > Thomas Carlyle
What is aristocracy?...
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What is aristocracy? A corporation of the best, of the bravest.
Source: 'Chartism' [The similar phrase, ``the best and the brightest,'' used as a book title by David Halberstam in 1969, comes fro
-- Thomas Carlyle, (Dec 4 1795-1881), Scottish essayist, historian; He was considered one of the era's great sages and man of letters; wrote The French Revolution, 1837.