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“This is why Paine was careful to downplay the distinction between the rich and the poor. He wanted his American readers to focus on distant kings, not local grandees. He wanted them to break with the Crown, not to disturb the class order.”

Book:White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

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“His lips twitched upward, and warmth spread through him as he said, "I can't dance." "Dancing is for people who don't truly appreciate the buffet." "I have nothing to wear." "I'll find something for you." "The nobility will gossip about you until the day you die," he said. One last attempt to talk sense into her even though he knew it was a lost cause. "They need a new hobby anyway." She smiled at him.”

Class Dancing Sassy Heroine

Book:The Wish Granter

Source: The Wish Granter

“From the point of view of the Low, no historic change has ever meant much more than a change in the name of their masters.”

Class Revolution Class Struggle Class Struggles

Book:1984

Source: 1984

“You despise the real bourgeois classes for all their snobbishness and their snobbish voices and ways. You do, don't you? Yet all you put in their place is a horrid little refusal to have nasty thoughts or do nasty things or be nasty in any way. Do you know that every great thing in the story of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?”

Love Life Art Feelings Truth Beautiful Passion Beauty Class Thoughts Hatred Thought Despise Nasty Refusal Bourgeois Snob Snobbish Classes Snobbishness Horrid

Book:The Collector

Source: The Collector

“Robin Hood was also a terrorist ― but he had some style and a little class.”

Class Style Terrorist Robin Hood

Book:The Leopard Hunts in Darkness

Source: The Leopard Hunts in Darkness

“No one imagines keeping the powerful low for long, apart from anything because if the peasants governed and the lords worked the land, everyone would quickly die of hunger, because everyone gets the hands they deserve.”

Work Class Q Luther Blissett

Book:Q

Source: Q

“Democracy is the process to elect the Government of the Upper class or caste people, by the poor people and for the corporate people - Idiotneil”

People Government Poor Class Democracy Corporate Caste

Author:Neil Jain

“Her breast is fit for pearls, But I was not a "Diver" - Her brow is fit for thrones But I have not a crest, Her heart is fit for home- I- a Sparrow- build there Sweet of twigs and twine My perennial nest.”

Poetry Letters Poems Love Poems Emily Dickinson

Book:Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

Source: Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

“All these faces look happy enough, say Shug. Big and beefy. Eyes clear and innocent, like they don't know them other crooks on the front page. But they the same folks, she say.”

Class Privilege Hypocrisy Apolitical White People

Book:The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

“She was shocked when she followed her aunt and cousin down into the city proper. The streets were crawling with people, all hurrying to and fro, mindless of one another. They brushed by with barely even a glance, stepping down into the busy roads between horse drawn buses and draymen’s carts with such confidence, seemingly oblivious that they could be run down at any moment. Children dodged in and out amongst them, ragamuffins all, some barefoot.”

Romance Women Fiction Class Struggle England Historical Workers Inequality City Manchester Victorian Child Labor Mill

Book:The Mill Owner's Son

Source: The Mill Owner's Son

“You two start on home, Daisy,' said Tom. 'In Mr Gatsby's car.' She looked at Tom, alarmed now, but he insisted with magnanimous scorn. 'Go on. He won't annoy you. I think he realises that his presumptuous little flirtation is over.”

Class Humiliation Place

Book:The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

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