"Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class." — Maggie Smith

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• The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the… — Aristotle
• Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out… — 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,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily… — Saint Augustine
• There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class… — 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… — Diane Ackerman
• I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose… — Peter Ackroyd
• Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
• The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country. — Robert Baden-Powell

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