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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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Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling. – Charles Horton Cooley

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When we say a woman is of a certain social class, we really mean her husband or father is. – Zoe Fairbairns

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At a round table there is no dispute about place. – Italian Proverb

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