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As the wicked flee when none pursueth, so does the middle-class wrestle when none contendeth. They c...

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- What do you expect? Think we were sent into the world to have a soft time and what is it? Float on...

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We are the bourgeoisie—the third estate, as they call us now—and what we want is a nobility of merit...

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Thomas MannBuddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

This advice comes as a surprise: job searching is not joblessness; it is a job in itself and should ...

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Barbara EhrenreichBait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

... she exclaimed, the innate respectability of the middle-class housewife rising impulsively to the...

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By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across th...

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Murray KemptonPart of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties