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.
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.
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...
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...