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“England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.”

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Author:Stephen Daldry

“In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with labour ended, the table spread, goodness all around, the lost ones restored, hymnody incessant.”

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Book:Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible

Source: Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible

“That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.”

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Author:Matthew Arnold

“Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.”

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Author:E. M. Forster

“In America, if your next-door neighbor has a Rolls-Royce, you want one too. But in England, if your neighbor has a Rolls-Royce, you want him to die in a fiery accident. That's a quote from someone else, but there's something about American optimism, that feeling you can do anything if you're at least middle class in America. If I can have a writing career, anyone can. There's nothing special about me.”

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Author:David Sedaris

“merica was middle-class for the very start - the people who came first were hyper-strivers from England. There were no vested interests, no ranks, no classes, it was very lightly populated, there were unlimited natural resources - for free essentially - if you failed, you could always start over.”

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Author:Charles R. Morris

“In California we froze property taxes, school size increased, test scores declined, and there was a massive middle-class white flight to private schools. We're turning into Victorian England at a very rapid rate.”

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Author:Robert Hass

“It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.”

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Book:The English humourists. Critical reviews. The second funeral of Napoleon. The four Georges. Sketches and travels in London

Source: The English humourists. Critical reviews. The second funeral of Napoleon. The four Georges. Sketches and travels in London

“We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep school manners, the aristocratic calm, the Skull and Bones mystery, the dappled lawns stretching before New England summer homes. How else can be explained the Bush vs. Kerry match-up that confronts us this year?”