“Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do; but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.”

—  Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues

Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), pp. 181-182.

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