There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth, which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes. - Winwood W. Reade

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Winwood W. Reade: "There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth, which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes."

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Angels	Apes	Believe	Birth
Boast	Certain	Class	Degenerated
Down	Elevated	Fathers	Follies
Industry	Makes	People	Prefer
Rather	Rose	Same	Sentiment
Shabbygenteel	Talents	Through	Vanity
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