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Social Classes

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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Luis Buñuel

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Take but degree away, untune that string,
And, hark! what discord follows; each thing meets
In mere oppugnancy: the bounded waters
Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores,
And make a sop of all this solid globe.

William Shakespeare

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Really, if the lower orders don’t set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

Oscar Wilde

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The hind that would be mated by the lion
Must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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You may tempt the upper classes
With your villainous demitasses,
But Heaven will protect the working girl.

Edgar Smith

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Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Gustave Flaubert

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Noblesse oblige [Rank has its obligations].

Gaston Pierre Marc (Duc de Lévis)

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