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His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

Having leveled my palace, don’t erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

The poor man is always a child, and the rich man is always a fool.

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.