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Calvin Coolidge1 quote
This country believes in prosperity. It is absurd to suppose that it is envious of those who are already prosperous. The wise and correct course to follow in taxation and all other economic legislation is not to destroy those who have already secured success but to create conditions under which every one will have a better chance to be successful. — Calvin Coolidge · 1925Gustave Flaubert1 quote
Axiom: hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom. — Gustave Flaubert · 1867William E. Gladstone1 quote
All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes. — William E. Gladstone · 1886