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Quote by Zoe Fairbairns
When we say a woman is of a certain social class, we really mean h

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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Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets! – Thomas Carlyle

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Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, whats left of them. – Roland Barthes

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All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes. – William Ewart Gladstone

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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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