Petty Bourgeois

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    Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.
    Nicolai A. Berdyaev (1874–1948)