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* That they, who pretend to set themselves at the head of the world, should be obliged to own themselves generally inferior to those they call their inferiors in the very accomplishments which give the most OF IwNOWLEDGE.

The Dignity of Human Nature, Or, A Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for ... 1812

I presume a marriage33 which is contracted with some great family, superior in wealth and influence, bears away the palm, since it confers upon the bridegroom not pleasure only but distinction. 34 Next comes the marriage made with equals; and last, wedlock with inferiors, which is apt to be regarded as degrading and disserviceable.

Hiero 2007

For my own part, I am more upon my guard as to my behavior to my servants, and others who are called my inferiors, than I am toward my equals: for fear of being suspected of that mean and ungenerous sentiment of desiring to make others feel that difference which fortune has, and perhaps too, undeservedly, made between us.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

The man who will insult his inferiors is a boor at heart, however polished he may appear amongst his equals, or however deferential to his superiors.

Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life. Sarah Annie Frost

"I am more upon my guard," he writes, "as to my behavior to my servants and to others who are called my inferiors than I am towards my equals, for fear of being suspected of that mean and ungenerous sentiment of desiring to make others feel that difference which fortune has, and perhaps too undeservedly, made between us."

Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life. Sarah Annie Frost

The arts that distinguish man from his inferiors are the products of inter-communication and co-operation.

Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe

Our fellows, however addled, are our friends, our inferiors are our prey, and since the policeman had discovered Mary publicly washing out an alien hall his respect for her had withered and dropped to death almost in an instant; whence it appears that there is really only one grave and debasing vice in the world, and that is poverty.

Mary, Mary James Stephens 1916

Crudely put, those who have been dependents are now sustainers; those who have been led now guide; the inferiors are the superiors.

The Nervous Housewife Abraham Myerson 1914

In olden times the clergymen, the lawyers, the rich, the lucky class in general, decided for themselves what they should do, and then they decided for their so-called inferiors what those inferiors should do.

Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers 1906

The most I could do would be to get fame by my talents and achievements, intoxicated by the respect of my inferiors, that is to say by the respect of those whom I do not esteem and whose veneration ought to be valueless to me.

Sanine Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev 1902