W. Somerset Maugham Quote

The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.

Rich or poor, money rules with an iron fist.

The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive dissonance.

Illiteracy is the innability of a person to learn. It is not all about the innability to read or write as the middle class regards it.

The rich and the poor truly are from different realms: one has adapted to become an expert in material forfeit; the other has forfeited all they are to material, and thus is enslaved, by it.

The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960.

A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.

It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their attitude and decided to produce a shorter edition for middle-class families. This led to Wilhelm's edit...

When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my molderi...

This advice comes as a surprise: job searching is not joblessness; it is a job in itself and should be structured to resemble one, right down to the more regrettable features of employment, like havin...