The wish of persons in the humbler classes of life to ape the manners...

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‘The wish of persons in the humbler classes of life, to ape the manners and customs of those whom fortune has placed above them, is often the subject of remark, and not unfrequently of complaint‘ is a quotation from Sketches by Boz, Scenes, Chapter 9 (London Recreations).

Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces written by Charles Dickens and published as a book in 1836.

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