We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur to surrender it voluntarily.
Note 1. Those families, you know, are our upper-crust,not upper ten thousand.Cooper: The Ways of the Hour, chap. vi. (1850). At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.N. P. Willis: Necessity for a Promenade Drive. [back]
Note 2. Sam Slick first appeared in a weekly paper of Nova Scotia, 1835. [back]