HENRY W. SHAW ("Josh Billings")
NATRAL AND UNNATRAL ARISTOKRATS
Natur furnishes all the nobleman we hav.
She holds the pattent.
Pedigree haz no more to do in making a man aktually grater than he iz, than a pekok's feather in his hat haz in making him aktually taller.
This iz a hard phakt for some tew learn.
This mundane earth iz thik with male and femail ones who think they are grate bekause their ansesstor waz luckey in the sope or tobacco trade; and altho the sope haz run out sumtime since, they try tew phool themselves and other folks with the suds.
Sope-suds iz a prekarious bubble.
Thare ain't nothing so thin on the ribs az a sope-suds aristokrat.