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-->--''Discworld/FeetOfClay''

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-->--''Literature/FeetOfClay''
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->''In old Transylvania, when I was a lad/Our castle was poor, but we were never sad.''
-->--'''Count von Count''', "[[Series/SesameStreet Doing the Batty Bat]]"
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-->--'''Beauty''', ''Literature/ARetellingOfBeautyAndTheBeast''

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-->--'''Beauty''', ''Literature/ARetellingOfBeautyAndTheBeast''
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-->''As a family we are not rich except in honor, and, valuing this above all mundane possessions, I chose the profession of my father rather than a more profitable career.''

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-->''As ->''As a family we are not rich except in honor, and, valuing this above all mundane possessions, I chose the profession of my father rather than a more profitable career.''



-->''My mother came of a fine old family that had nothing but its bloodlines left to live on. Her parents were more than happy to accept my father's suit, with its generous bridal settlements. But it had been a happy marriage, old friends of the family told us girls. Our father had doted on his lovely young wife...and she had worshiped him.''

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-->''My ->''My mother came of a fine old family that had nothing but its bloodlines left to live on. Her parents were more than happy to accept my father's suit, with its generous bridal settlements. But it had been a happy marriage, old friends of the family told us girls. Our father had doted on his lovely young wife...and she had worshiped him.''



-->''She was proud, and if she had not been, her parents would have been proud for her. And there is little market for penniless bluebloods of no particular beauty -- especially when the blueness of the blood is suspected to have been diluted by a questionable great-grandmother on the mother's side.''

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-->''She ->''She was proud, and if she had not been, her parents would have been proud for her. And there is little market for penniless bluebloods of no particular beauty -- especially when the blueness of the blood is suspected to have been diluted by a questionable great-grandmother on the mother's side.''



-->'''Colon:''' I thought the upper crust had pots of money.\\

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-->'''Colon:''' ->'''Colon:''' I thought the upper crust had pots of money.\\



-->''Poor gentleman of good family! always cockering up his honour, dining miserably and in secret, and making a hypocrite of the toothpick with which he sallies out into the street after eating nothing to oblige him to use it! Poor fellow, I say, with his nervous honour, fancying they perceive a league off the patch on his shoe, the sweat-stains on his hat, the shabbiness of his cloak, and the hunger of his stomach!''

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-->''Poor ->''Poor gentleman of good family! always cockering up his honour, dining miserably and in secret, and making a hypocrite of the toothpick with which he sallies out into the street after eating nothing to oblige him to use it! Poor fellow, I say, with his nervous honour, fancying they perceive a league off the patch on his shoe, the sweat-stains on his hat, the shabbiness of his cloak, and the hunger of his stomach!''



-->''I am not so great a prince as any of you; however, I am a king. I am Theodore, elected King of Corsica; I had the title of Majesty, and now I am scarcely treated as a gentleman. I have coined money, and now am not worth a farthing; I have had two secretaries of state, and now I have scarce a valet; I have seen myself on a throne, and I have seen myself upon straw in a common jail in London. I am afraid that I shall meet with the same treatment here though, like your majesties, I am come to see the Carnival at Venice.''

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-->''I ->''I am not so great a prince as any of you; however, I am a king. I am Theodore, elected King of Corsica; I had the title of Majesty, and now I am scarcely treated as a gentleman. I have coined money, and now am not worth a farthing; I have had two secretaries of state, and now I have scarce a valet; I have seen myself on a throne, and I have seen myself upon straw in a common jail in London. I am afraid that I shall meet with the same treatment here though, like your majesties, I am come to see the Carnival at Venice.''



-->''Of this sort there are so many that the plentie maketh them cheap : so that you shall see dukes glad to serve a meane man for five or six rubbels or marks a year, and yet they will stand highly upon their bestchest or reputation of their honours.''

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-->''Of ->''Of this sort there are so many that the plentie maketh them cheap : so that you shall see dukes glad to serve a meane man for five or six rubbels or marks a year, and yet they will stand highly upon their bestchest or reputation of their honours.''



-->''At this very moment one meets in Russia descendants of Rurik and Guedimin following more than modest pursuits. In Petersburgh I have seen one conduct the orchestra of a cafe-concert ; in Italy I have met, on second- and third-rate stages, princesses singing under assumed names, and I was told there had been princes who drove cabs and princesses who took positions as lady's-maids. Such things account for the fact that several families issued from Rurik dropped their title.''

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-->''At ->''At this very moment one meets in Russia descendants of Rurik and Guedimin following more than modest pursuits. In Petersburgh I have seen one conduct the orchestra of a cafe-concert ; in Italy I have met, on second- and third-rate stages, princesses singing under assumed names, and I was told there had been princes who drove cabs and princesses who took positions as lady's-maids. Such things account for the fact that several families issued from Rurik dropped their title.''



-->''After the war, I won't just have a 500-year-old aristocratic name, but for the first time, some money to go with it.''

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-->''After ->''After the war, I won't just have a 500-year-old aristocratic name, but for the first time, some money to go with it.''

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->''...And that gent today\\
You gave a cent today\\
Once had several chateaux!\\
\\
When folks who still can ride in jitneys \\
Find out Vanderbilts and Whitney's \\
Lack baby clothes...\\
Anything goes!''
-->-- '''Music/ColePorter'''

->"No man is blest in every single thing.\\
"One is of noble birth, but lacking means."
-->-- A surviving fragment of ''[[Creator/{{Euripides}} Sthenoboea]]'', quoted in ''[[Creator/{{Aristophanes}} The Frogs]]''

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->''...And that gent today\\
You gave a cent today\\
Once had several chateaux!\\
\\
When folks who still can ride in jitneys \\
Find out Vanderbilts and Whitney's \\
Lack baby clothes...\\
Anything goes!''
-->-- '''Music/ColePorter'''

->"No man is blest in every single thing.\\
"One is of noble birth, but lacking means."
-->-- A surviving fragment of ''[[Creator/{{Euripides}} Sthenoboea]]'', quoted in ''[[Creator/{{Aristophanes}} The Frogs]]''
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->"No man is blest in every single thing.\\
"One is of noble birth, but lacking means."
-->-- A surviving fragment of ''[[Creator/{{Euripides}} Sthenoboea]]'', quoted in ''[[Creator/{{Aristophanes}} The Frogs]]''

->''There are not at Naples, however, four fortunes which reach five hundred thousand livres income, twenty which exceed two hundred thousand, nor more than fifty ranging between one hundred ard one hundred and fifty thousand. The ordinary income of the higher order is from five to ten thousand ducats. Amongst the common herd, however, the usual income is about one thousand crowns, sometimes less. I say nothing of debts. But the most curious fact is, that it is necessary to be previously informed that this difference of fortune exists, to be able to perceive it.''
-->--'''Creator/AlexandreDumas''', ''Sketches of Naples''

->''"I suppose most people would call me a failure and all my people failures now; except those who would say we never failed, because we never had to try. Anyhow, we're all poor enough now; I don't know whether you know that I've been teaching music. I dare say we deserved to go. I dare say we were useless. Some of us tried to be harmless."''
-->-- '''Elizabeth Seymour''', ''The Tales of the Long Bow'' by Creator/GKChesterton

-->''As a family we are not rich except in honor, and, valuing this above all mundane possessions, I chose the profession of my father rather than a more profitable career.''
-->--'''Tan Handron''', ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars''

-->''My mother came of a fine old family that had nothing but its bloodlines left to live on. Her parents were more than happy to accept my father's suit, with its generous bridal settlements. But it had been a happy marriage, old friends of the family told us girls. Our father had doted on his lovely young wife...and she had worshiped him.''
-->--'''Beauty''', ''Literature/ARetellingOfBeautyAndTheBeast''

-->''She was proud, and if she had not been, her parents would have been proud for her. And there is little market for penniless bluebloods of no particular beauty -- especially when the blueness of the blood is suspected to have been diluted by a questionable great-grandmother on the mother's side.''
-->--''Literature/TheBlueSword''

-->'''Colon:''' I thought the upper crust had pots of money.\\
'''Nobby:''' Well, I'm the crust on its uppers.
-->--''Discworld/FeetOfClay''

-->''Poor gentleman of good family! always cockering up his honour, dining miserably and in secret, and making a hypocrite of the toothpick with which he sallies out into the street after eating nothing to oblige him to use it! Poor fellow, I say, with his nervous honour, fancying they perceive a league off the patch on his shoe, the sweat-stains on his hat, the shabbiness of his cloak, and the hunger of his stomach!''
-->--''Literature/DonQuixote''

-->''I am not so great a prince as any of you; however, I am a king. I am Theodore, elected King of Corsica; I had the title of Majesty, and now I am scarcely treated as a gentleman. I have coined money, and now am not worth a farthing; I have had two secretaries of state, and now I have scarce a valet; I have seen myself on a throne, and I have seen myself upon straw in a common jail in London. I am afraid that I shall meet with the same treatment here though, like your majesties, I am come to see the Carnival at Venice.''
-->--'''Count Theodore''', ''Literature/{{Candide}}''

-->''Of this sort there are so many that the plentie maketh them cheap : so that you shall see dukes glad to serve a meane man for five or six rubbels or marks a year, and yet they will stand highly upon their bestchest or reputation of their honours.''
-->--'''Giles Fletcher, the Elder''', ''Of the Russe Common Wealth'' (1591)

-->''At this very moment one meets in Russia descendants of Rurik and Guedimin following more than modest pursuits. In Petersburgh I have seen one conduct the orchestra of a cafe-concert ; in Italy I have met, on second- and third-rate stages, princesses singing under assumed names, and I was told there had been princes who drove cabs and princesses who took positions as lady's-maids. Such things account for the fact that several families issued from Rurik dropped their title.''
-->--'''Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu''', ''The empire of the Tsars and the Russians''

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-->''After the war, I won't just have a 500-year-old aristocratic name, but for the first time, some money to go with it.''
-->--'''Colonel Klink''' believing that he is going have a fortune in oil, ''Series/HogansHeroes''

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->''...And that gent today\\
You gave a cent today\\
Once had several chateaux!\\
\\
When folks who still can ride in jitneys \\
Find out Vanderbilts and Whitney's \\
Lack baby clothes...\\
Anything goes!''
-->-- '''Music/ColePorter'''

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-->-- '''Meti's Sword Manual''', ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons''

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-->-- '''Meti's Sword Manual''', ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons''''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons''

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-->-- '''ColePorter'''

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-->-- '''ColePorter'''
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-->''...And that gent today\\

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-->''...->''...And that gent today\\



-->--'''ColePorter'''

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-->--'''ColePorter'''
-->-- '''ColePorter'''



-->--A surviving fragment of ''[[Creator/{{Euripides}} Sthenoboea]]'', quoted in ''[[Creator/{{Aristophanes}} The Frogs]]''

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-->--A -->-- A surviving fragment of ''[[Creator/{{Euripides}} Sthenoboea]]'', quoted in ''[[Creator/{{Aristophanes}} The Frogs]]''



-->--'''The Narrator''', ''[[Film/WelcomeMrMarshall Welcome Mr. Marshall!]]''

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-->--'''The -->-- '''The Narrator''', ''[[Film/WelcomeMrMarshall Welcome Mr. Marshall!]]''Marshall!]]''

->''"Upon meeting me, you might find that my appearance is quite dreadful and unkempt. I have been spat upon by priest, king, and merchant alike. I have no retainers, and possess nothing except a straight sword six hand spans (five and a half kret) long (this is the proper length). This is because I am Royalty and the undisputed master of the principal art of Cutting. I will fight naked with ten-thousand men."''
-->-- '''Meti's Sword Manual''', ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons''
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-->--'''The Narrator''', ''[[Film/WelcomeMrMarshall WelcomeMrMarshall!]]''

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-->--'''The Narrator''', ''[[Film/WelcomeMrMarshall WelcomeMrMarshall!]]''Welcome Mr. Marshall!]]''
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-->--'''The Narrator''', ''Welcome, Mr. Marshall!''

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-->--'''The Narrator''', ''Welcome, Mr. Marshall!''''[[Film/WelcomeMrMarshall WelcomeMrMarshall!]]''
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->''Before, I forgot to show you the house with the most lineage, that of Don Luis. He is the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidalgo_(nobility) hidalgo]].'' "No Stain",[[note]]Don Luis's family motto, literally "Not Even One Stain"[[/note]] nor any money. He's always waiting for a letter that never arrives. [[LastOfHisKind His ancestors]] must have forgot to write him.''

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->''Before, I forgot to show you the house with the most lineage, that of Don Luis. He is the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidalgo_(nobility) hidalgo]].'' "No Stain",[[note]]Don Luis's family motto, literally "Not Even One Stain"[[/note]] nor any money.no money at all. He's always waiting for a letter that never arrives. [[LastOfHisKind His ancestors]] must have forgot to write him.''
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-->--A surviving fragment of ''[[Creator/{{Euripides}} Sthenoboea]]'', quoted in ''[[Creator/{{Aristophanes}} The Frogs]]''

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-->--A surviving fragment of ''[[Creator/{{Euripides}} Sthenoboea]]'', quoted in ''[[Creator/{{Aristophanes}} The Frogs]]''Frogs]]''

->''Before, I forgot to show you the house with the most lineage, that of Don Luis. He is the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidalgo_(nobility) hidalgo]].'' "No Stain",[[note]]Don Luis's family motto, literally "Not Even One Stain"[[/note]] nor any money. He's always waiting for a letter that never arrives. [[LastOfHisKind His ancestors]] must have forgot to write him.''
-->--'''The Narrator''', ''Welcome, Mr. Marshall!''
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-->--'''ColePorter'''

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-->--'''ColePorter'''-->--'''ColePorter'''

->"No man is blest in every single thing.\\
"One is of noble birth, but lacking means."
-->--A surviving fragment of ''[[Creator/{{Euripides}} Sthenoboea]]'', quoted in ''[[Creator/{{Aristophanes}} The Frogs]]''

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-->''...And that gent today you gave a cent today once had several chateaux!\\

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-->''...And that gent today you today\\
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gave a cent today once today\\
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-->''...And that gent today you gave a cent today once had several chateaux!\\
When folks who still can ride in jitneys \\
Find out Vanderbilts and Whitney's \\
Lack baby clothes...\\
Anything goes!''
-->--'''ColePorter'''

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