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 * 1843 &mdash; Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. VIII, Unworking Aristocracy
 * That a class of men entitled to live sumptuously on the marrow of the earth; permitted simply, nay entreated, and as yet entreated in vain, to do nothing at all in return, was never heretofore seen on the face of this Planet.