| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 1631 |
| AUTHOR: | Benjamin Disraeli (1804–81) |
| QUOTATION: | “I was told,” continued Egremont, “that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension.” |
| ATTRIBUTION: | BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Sybil, or, The Two Nations, ed. Thom Braun, book 4, chapter 8, p. 299 (1980). First published in 1845. |
| SUBJECTS: | Rich |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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