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Quotation by W. Somerset Maugham
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat.... They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious.... They are scum.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965), British author. Sunday Times (London, Dec. 25, 1955).
on the generation of "Angry Young Men" as portrayed in Kingsley Amis's 1954 novel Lucky Jim. These people, Amis continued, "will in due course leave the university. Some will doubtless sink back, perhaps with relief, into the modest social class from which they emerged; some will take to drink, some to crime and go to prison.... A few will go into Parliament, become Cabinet Ministers and rule the country. I look upon myself as fortunate that I shall not live to see it."
on the generation of "Angry Young Men" as portrayed in Kingsley Amis's 1954 novel Lucky Jim. These people, Amis continued, "will in due course leave the university. Some will doubtless sink back, perhaps with relief, into the modest social class from which they emerged; some will take to drink, some to crime and go to prison.... A few will go into Parliament, become Cabinet Ministers and rule the country. I look upon myself as fortunate that I shall not live to see it."
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