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Thomas Love Peacock: Respectable means rich,...

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Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

Source: Lady Clarinda, in Crotchet Castle, ch. 3 (1831).
-- Thomas Love Peacock, (Oct 18 1785-1866), English novelist, poet; He satirized the intellectual tendencies of his day in novels in which conversation predominates over character or plot.


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