“Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one.”

—  Ayn Rand , book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

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