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"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."
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"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."
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"The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class."
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"But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish."
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"Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent."
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"I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits."
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"Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show."
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"The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide."
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"And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman."
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"I was always the class clown."
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"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."
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"The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world."
Parents
"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."
Parents
"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."
Parents
"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."
Class
"Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's."
Mathematics
"This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted."
Work
"Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business."
Business
"Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants."
Work
"Natures' curriculum cannot be changed."
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"As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism."
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