Quote#Wisdom
I want you to see Peel, Stanley, Graham, Sheil, Russell, Macaulay,…
Quote byThomas Chandler Haliburton · 1796–1865
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Sam Slick in England (1835), Ch. XXIV; “Sam Slick” first appeared in a weekly paper of Nova Scotia, 1835. Comparable to: "Those families, you know, are our upper-crust,—not upper ten thousand", Cooper: The Ways of the Hour, chap. vi. (1850); "At present there is no distinction among the upper ten th.
English (original)
I want you to see Peel, Stanley, Graham, Sheil, Russell, Macaulay, Old Joe, and soon. They are all upper-crust here.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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