Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.
Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.
HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end.CLAUDIUS Al...
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.
Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the like are degraded into activities for the idle, the unproductive, the very poor, or the very rich. A so...
When rich, being poor seems *adventurous.*
One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children
I wish we had met away from all these battles. I wish we had met in a land of peace without social classes and with no conflicts. I wish we had met in prehistoric times wearing cranberry leaves. I wis...
We, who were reduced to eating on the sidewalk , were suddenly elevated in status by this man's misery. We were the aristocrats and he the beggar. It flattered us. We were superbly above him and the c...