Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
“Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.”
“A plowman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.”
“Money and good manners make the gentleman.”
“Marry above thy match, and thou'lt get a master.”
“A cultivated class, for example, finds most difficulty in getting on with another which has acquired part—but only part—of its culture and customs.”
“A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.”
“Now it is a law which hardly admits of exceptions, that aristocracies do not maintain their numbers. The ruling race rules itself out; nothing fails like success.”
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