"Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class."

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"Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class."

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"Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out."

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"It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job."

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"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."

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"Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture."

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Jon Postel, American Scientist

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"There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class."

Martin C. Smith, American Journalist

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"I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers."

Christine Lavin, American Musician

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"I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class."

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"I walked out of class one day and I never went back."

Burt Lancaster, American Actor

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"I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is."

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"The fact is that I loved being in England."

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