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Quotation #11912 from The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce):

ARISTOCRACY, n. Government by the best men. (In this sense the word is obsolete; so is that kind of government.) Fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts -- guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
US author & satirist (1842 - 1914)  

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