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Generosity is a virtue more frequently found in the small top layers than among the masses. After all, it takes intelligence to suspect that generosity very often pays while egotism does not.

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Monarchy and War (2000)

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Bodies are mutually attracted by nearness, knowledge, and pleasure but souls by distance, mystery, and suffering.

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The Romantic may be alone, but he is never lonely, and that because of his knowledge of the presence of God.

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'Welfare State' is a misnomer, for every state must care for the common good.

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Patriotism, not nationalism, should inspire the citizen.

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The feeling of inequality begins now to be a burning pain, snobism lifts its ugly head, the element of general human competition gains headway in every phase of life.

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