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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

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Note in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919):— Compare: "I want you to see Peel, Stanley, Graham, Sheil, Russell, Macaulay, Old Joe, and soon. They are all upper-crust here." Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Sam Slick in England, 2 Chap., xxiv.; "Those families, you know, are our upper-crust,—not upper ten thousand", James Fenimore Cooper, The Ways of the Hour, chapter vi. (1850)

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He who binds
His soul to knowledge steals the key of heaven.

If there is any thing that keeps the mind
Open to angel visits, and repels
The ministry of ill—tis human love.

The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.

The world well tried—the sweetest thing in life
Is the unclouded welcome of a wife.

But he who never sins can little boast
Compared to him who goes and sins no more!

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