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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

Middle Class

George Bernard Shaw

WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

4.0 · 61 votes · 182 reads

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The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either

Middle Class

PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Middle Class

William Hazlitt

EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

4.3 · 34 votes · 122 reads

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This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise.

Middle Class

PoetItaly1265 · 13th century

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We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

Middle Class

NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

3.5 · 39 votes

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What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.

Middle Class

PoetGerman1877 · 19th century

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