“Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes
Lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes;
Antiquity and birth are needless here;
‘Tis impudence and money makes a peer.”

—  Daniel Defoe

Pt. I, l. 360-363.
The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)

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