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"And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman."
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"The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized."

"If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections."

"You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud."

"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."

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

"Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class."

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

"If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination."

"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."

"Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show."
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"I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason."

"I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that."

"It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything."

"Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks."

"The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade."

"As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour."
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