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I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substit

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence. – Christopher Hampton

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To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious? – Christopher Hampton

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishmans heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes. – Matthew Arnold

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This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise. – Dante Alighieri

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I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts 10:34 – Bible

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By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live. – Friedrich Engels

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