| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 43107 |
| QUOTATION: | The great disadvantage, and advantage, of the small urban bourgeois is his limited outlook. He sees the world as a middle- class world, and everything outside these limits is either laughable or slightly wicked. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | George Orwell (1903–1950), British author. “Charles Dickens,” Inside the Whale and Other Essays (1940). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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