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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

Matthew Arnold

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Matthew Arnold
Age: 65 †
Born: 1822
Born: December 24
Died: 1888
Died: April 15
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
School Inspector
University Teacher
Writer
Laleham
Surrey
Lower
Wealth
Middle
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Brutalizes
Materializes
Consumerism
Upper
Inequality

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