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"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."
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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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"And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman."
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"Dinah had all the class."
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"I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers."
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"A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion."
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"If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination."
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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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"I was a class clown."
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"In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics."
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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
Christian
"I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether."
Politics
"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."
Life
"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."
Class
"I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure."
Pleasure
"Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it."
Life
"It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep."
Man
"Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire."
Love
"When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it."
Joy
"I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail."
Man
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