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“Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.”

Chance Poor Lord Rich Findings Losing Prejudice Towns Fellows Rough Nobility Rich And Poor Noblemen

Book:Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson

Source: Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson

“Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from town's he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd nor wish'd to change his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize. More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.”

Source: The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres

“Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so rich with irony that it's a better subject for a comic novel than a column.... On one coast the cops are busting sex workers on Eighth Avenue, dragging them downtown to night court where they pay the fine and go right back to their corner; on another they're charging Heidi Fleiss with pandering in a town in which the verb is an art form.”

“Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school”

Should Children School Girl Poor Powerful Cities Boys Rich Towns Noble Village Rich And Poor Boy And Girl Ignoble Active Minds Cities And Towns

Author:John Amos Comenius

“One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.”

Hard Eye Rich Impossible Anxiety Towns Disappointment Relief Bulls Get Rich

Author:Tom Stoppard

“Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school. Education is indeed necessary for all, and this is evident if we consider the different degrees of ability. No one doubts that those who are stupid need instruction, that they may shake off their natural dullness. But in reality those who are clever need it far more, since an active mind, if not occupied with useful things, will busy itself with what is useless, curious, and pernicious.”

“[St. Ives] is a wonderful place to live. It's a small fishing town and one can live there inexpensively. There's a sympathetic population of other artists, where you can exchange ideas, and it's quite rich in artistic thought.”

Ideas Artist Rich Wonderful Towns Population Artistic Fishing Sympathetic Places To Live Wonderful Places

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“Across town, over in the East Village, the graffiti was calling for the rich to be eaten, imprisoned, or taxed out of existence. Though it sometimes seemed like a nice idea, I hoped the revolution would not take place during my lifetime. I didn't want the rich to go away until I could at least briefly join their ranks.”

Want Ideas Sometimes Existence Rich Nice Revolution Calling Towns Lifetime East Going Away Village Graffiti East Village

Book:Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“He was in blue jeans and a work shirt, which is another weird quirk of Rich Old Men. Just one of the guys here. Blue jeans and a work shirt, salt of the earth, working man like yourself. Like they're somehow uncomfortable about being rich enough to sleep in a bed made of vaginas being pulled around the town at night by a fleet of gold-covered midgets.”

“He sounds like Jesus. Except rich and sexy.” “Watch it, Meg. In this town joking about Jesus could get you shot. You’ve never seen so many of the faithful who’re armed.”

Jesus Sound Watches Rich Shots Towns Sexy Faithful Meg

Book:Call Me Irresistible: A Novel

Source: Call Me Irresistible: A Novel

“Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid and rich. Not like this muted palette -a pale blue bedroom, washed out sunny sky, dull green yellow brown of the fields. Here, I know ever twist of every road, every blade of grass, every face in this town, and I am suffocating.”

Knows Beautiful Faces Rich Sky Fields Towns Blue Green Grass Dull Brown Yellow Pale Bedroom Twists Blades Vivid Somewhere Else Sunny Palette Blades Of Grass Suffocating

Author:Lisa Ann Sandell

“When I look out [the window] at the big houses on either side of the road, it's obvious we've entered the rich side of town. Poor people don't post signs like NO TRESPASSING, PRIVATE DRIVE, PRIVATE PROPERTY, MONITORED BY CAMERA SURVEILLANCE. I should know because I've been poor my entire life, and the only person I know who ever posted a sign like these is my friend...and he actually stole the sign off a rich guy's yard.”

“Why aren't crazy people content to take over, like, one town? It always has to be the whole word. They can't just control maybe twenty people. The have to control everyone. The can't just be stinking rich. The can't just do genetic experiments on a couple unlucky few. They have to put something in the water. In the air. To get everyone. I was tired of all of it.”

People Whole Water Rich Air Crazy Couple Twenties Towns Tired Experiments Bad People Unlucky Crazy People

Author:James Patterson

“Even in the stifling bosom of the town, A garden, in which nothing thrives, has charms That soothes the rich possessor; much consol'd, That here and there some sprigs of mournful mint, Or nightshade, or valerian, grace the well He cultivates.”

Wells Home Rich Grace Garden Towns Charm Thrive Here And There Bosoms Mint Stifling

Book:The Task: A Poem. In Six Books

Source: The Task: A Poem. In Six Books

“That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.”

Men Able School Poor Boys Rich Towns Forgiving Clubs Rich Man Being Rich Princeton Poor Boy

Book:A Life in Letters

Source: A Life in Letters

“Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.”

Humans Spirit Rich Lows Garden Hollywood Towns Human Spirit Insulting Hideous Dump

Book:Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.”

Years Kind Life Is Felt Community Poor Cities Roles Rich Couple Towns Pleasant Small Town Small Town Life Rich Or Poor Pleasant Things

Book:Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He frivols through the livelong day, He knows not Poverty, her pinch. His lot seems light, his heart seems gay; He has a cinch. Yet though my lamp burns low and dim, Though I must slave for livelihood- Think you that I would change with him? You bet I would!”

Thinking Knows Men Heart Country Light Seems Change Poverty Rich Fate Gay Lows Towns Slave Smoke Fifty Cents Estates Lamps Rich Man Cigar Livelihood Long Day

Book:TOBOGGANING ON PARNASSUS

Source: TOBOGGANING ON PARNASSUS