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“Distinction does not consist in the facile use of a contemptible set of conventions, but in being numbered among those who are true, and honest, and just, and pure, and lovely, and of good report” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority, perfect equality affords no temptation.” Thomas Paine, Common Sense
“the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.” L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz
“If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than his undistinguished average brother.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches; which, in their eye, is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.” Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

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