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  1. Edith Wharton _ The Age of Innocence

    Don't tell me," Mrs. Archer would say to herchildren, "all this modern newspaper rubbishabout a New York aristocracy. If there is one,neither the Mingotts nor the Mansons belong toit; no, nor the Newlands or the Chiverses either.Our grandfathers and great-grandfathers werejust respectable English or Dutch merchants,who came to the colonies to make their fortune, and stayed here because they did so well. Oneof your great-grandfathers signed the Declaration, and another was a general on Washington's staff, and received General Burgoyne'ssword after the battle of Saratoga. These arethings to be proud of, but they have nothing todo with rank or class. New York has alwaysbeen a commercial community, and there arenot more than three families in it who can claim an aristocratic origin in the real sense of theword.
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  2. Ayn Rand _ Atlas Shrugged

    Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one.
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  3. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Inimitable Jeeves

    I say, you don't know how I could raise fifty quid somehow, do you?""Why don't you work?""Work?" said young Bingo, surprised. "What, me? No, I shall have to think of some way.
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