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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

In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these...

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Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adher...

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Christopher HitchensPrepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports

Now, I have always wanted to agree with Lady Bracknell that there is no earthly use for the upper an...

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Christopher HitchensPrepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you...

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The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, fou...

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I'll put it on my table where I keep my drawings," Hassan said.His saying that made me kind of sad. ...

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