'"Unless," he said to Parwen, "we get back to some hard-and-fast standards, we shall soon be breeding a race of amusing cads."
Parwen smiled wryly. "We won't," he said, "if by 'we' you mean the England that matters at all. But this particular class happens to be very busy committing suicide. I think it's a pity, as I happen to belong to it, but I don't suppose it matters in the long run if this particular kind of 'upper' class goes or not. There will always be a governing class of some kind, and it will always go rotten as it begins to be useless."'
from Lily Christine by Michael Arlen (Chapter VI)
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