Quote#God & Faith
Just as in social things the essential bourgeois is one who, being…
Quote byRobert Hugh Benson · 1871–1914
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Christ in the Church (1911), Pt. 2, ch. 1 (p. 49).
English (original)
Just as in social things the essential bourgeois is one who, being tolerably well off, is completely complacent with his position—unlike the lowest class which has no position to be complacent about, and the highest class which does not think about it at all either way; so in matters of mind. 'How hardly shall they who trust in riches,' says our Lord, 'enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.'
— Robert Hugh Benson
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