Ah, we shall never have a real aristocracy while this plebeian reluctance to live upon a parent or a wife continues the — William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham
Ah, we shall never have a real aristocracy while this plebeian reluctance to live upon a parent or a wife continues the — William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham
Ah, we shall never have a real aristocracy while this plebeian reluctance to live upon a parent or a wife continues the — William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham
Ah, we shall never have a real aristocracy while this plebeian reluctance to live upon a parent or a wife continues the — William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham
Ah, we shall never have a real aristocracy while this plebeian reluctance to live upon a parent or a wife continues the — William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham
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Ah, we shall never have a real aristocracy while this plebeian reluctance to live upon a parent or a wife continues the animating spirit of our youth. It strikes at the foot of the feudal system!

— William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham
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