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Class Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use…
- Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.
- There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.
- It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
- We believe that Carlyle has, after all, more readers, and is better known to-day for thisvery originality of style, and that posterity will have reason…
More Class Quotes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some… — Alfred Austin
- I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good… — Diane Ackerman
- I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last… — Peter Ackroyd
- Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country. — Robert Baden-Powell