On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
The next generation of the nobility will resemble the artificers and clowns, and money-jobbers, usurers, and Jews, who will be always their fellows, sometimes their masters.
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Edmund Burke
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In his critique of the French Revolution, Burke expresses concern about the social degradation of the nobility.
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