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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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"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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"And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman."
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"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."
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"If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately."
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"Dinah had all the class."
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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 was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers."
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"Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms."
Life
"I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on."
People
"I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room."
Class
"Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?"
Family
"I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago."
Time
"Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win."
Judgment
"Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present."
Candor
"Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three."
Animals
"Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?"
First
"But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only appropriated by the animal."
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