Raizing aristokrats iz a dredful poor bizzness; yu don't never git your seed back.
One democrat iz worth more tew the world than 60 thousand manufaktured aristokrats.
An Amerikan aristokrat iz the most ridikilus thing in market. They are generally ashamed ov their ansesstors; and, if they hav enny, and live long enuff, they generally hav cauze tew be ashamed ov their posterity.
I kno ov sevral familys in Amerika who are trieing tew liv on their aristokrasy. The money and branes giv out sumtime ago.
It iz hard skratching for them.
Yu kan warm up kold potatoze and liv on them, but yu kant warm up aristokratik pride and git even a smell.
Yu might az well undertake tew raze a krop ov korn in a deserted brikyard by manuring the ground heavy with tanbark.
Yung man, set down, and keep still—yu will hay plenty ov chances yet to make a phool ov yureself before yu die.
It is told of an old Baptist parson, famous in Virginia, that he once visited a plantation where the colored servant who met him at the gate asked which barn he would have his horse put in.