“Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.”
Henry Fielding book Joseph Andrews
Book IV, Ch. 6
Joseph Andrews (1742)
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Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury (2 October 1938), quoted in Keith Feiling, Neville Chamberlain (London: Macmillan, 1946), p. 375.
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Terry Pratchett book The Carpet People
The Carpet People (1971; 1992)
Context: They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings.
It's what most people call themselves, to begin with. And then one day the tribe meets some other People or, if it's not been a good day, The Enemy. If only they'd think up a name like Some More True Human Beings, it'd save a lot of trouble later on.