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470dd47 Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach. benefits classification doors exploitation friends friendship hypocrisy life-lessons loyalty people selection social-classes social-gaps social-ladder society Paulo Coelho
245e2f3 HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. CLAUDIUS Alas, alas. HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this? HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar. dining king polonius social-classes William Shakespeare
5b04f32 One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children poor rich social-classes Ron Rash
f59a60d We, who were reduced to eating on the sidewalk , were suddenly elevated in status by this man's misery. We were the aristocrats and he the beggar. It flattered us. We were superbly above him and the comedy gave us a delusion of high self-respect. In a while, the magnanimity of the rich would complete the picture. We would feed our scraps to the poor. poverty social-classes wealth John Howard Griffin