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Jai Ganesh

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Classes Quotes - II

Classes Quotes - II

1. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

2. All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. - Benjamin Franklin

3. There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. - Plato

4. Work is the curse of the drinking classes. - Oscar Wilde

5. Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. - Ayn Rand

6. The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny. - J. K. Rowling

7. I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star. - Carl Sagan

8. Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time. - John Ruskin.

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