The things we do!

Hence
the latter charming woman's scorn at the British baronetcy, and her many
jokes at the order. In a word, and in the height of your social
prosperity, there was always a lurking dissatisfaction, and a something
bitter, in the midst of the fountain of delights at which you were
permitted to drink.
There is no good (unless your taste is that way) in living in a society
where you are merely the equal of everybody else. Many people give
themselves extreme pains to frequent company where all around them are
their superiors, and where, do what you will, you must be subject to
continual mortification--(as, for instance, when Marchioness X. forgets
you, and you can't help thinking that she cuts you on purpose; when
Duchess Z. passes by in her diamonds, etc.). The true pleasure of life is
to live with your inferiors. Be the cock of your village; the queen of
your coterie; and, besides very great persons, the people whom Fate has
specially endowed with this kindly consolation are those who have seen
what are called better days--those who have had losses.


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