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

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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."

Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist

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"Across town, over in the East Village, the graffiti was calling for the rich to be eaten, imprisoned, or taxed out of existence. Though it sometimes seemed like a nice idea, I hoped the revolution would not take place during my lifetime. I didn't want the rich to go away until I could at least briefly join their ranks."

David Sedaris, American Writer

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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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"My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing."

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"The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized."

Ernst Toller, German Playwright

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"My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown."

Sally Kellerman, American Actress

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"After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result."

Frederick Sanger, English Scientist

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"They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken."

Joe Mantegna, American Actor

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"We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have to keep moving forward."

David Axelrod, American Public Servant

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"I'm painfully middle class."

Valerie Harper, American Actress

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"And after all what is a lie? Tis but The truth in masquerade."

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"Few things surpass old wine and they may preach Who please the more because they preach in vain - Let us have wine and women mirth and laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after."

Hedonism

"The dew of compassion is a tear."

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"Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil."

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"I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."

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"What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now."

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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."

"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."

"My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing."

"The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized."

"My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown."

"After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result."

"They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken."

"We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have to keep moving forward."

"I'm painfully middle class."

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"And after all what is a lie? Tis but The truth in masquerade."

"Few things surpass old wine and they may preach Who please the more because they preach in vain - Let us have wine and women mirth and laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after."

"The dew of compassion is a tear."

"Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil."

"I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."

"What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now."

"The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity."

"I awoke one morning and found myself famous."

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