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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 distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force. – Albert Einstein

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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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What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity. – Hermann Hesse

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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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