Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg

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    “People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.”
    —Friedrich Engels (1820–1895)

    “The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “That celebrated,
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    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)