Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: "The vices of the rich and great are..."

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Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (née Power; 1 September 1789 – 4 June 1849), was an Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess. She became acquainted with Lord Byron in Genoa and wrote a book about her conversations with him.

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Love matches are formed by people who pay for a month of honey with a life of vinegar.

—Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.

—Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.

—Margaret Halsey

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Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goat cheese… get up at dawn to run, break for a midmorning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.

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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

—Oscar Wilde

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I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

—Bruce Grocott

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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

—Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

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The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for errors; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.

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