Each of us keeps at the most luminous point of his souvenirs, a lively sense of his secondary quality, his part of agriculturist, day laborer, man of letters, public officer, Proletary, bourgeois, or political or religious sectarian; but his essential quality, which is to be a son of his country and a man, is relegated to the shade.
"The Simple Life"
Charles Wagner
Yet, touched as he felt in his better nature, the Proletary instinct bade him try once more if her effort to get rid of him originated in pity or fear, and he muttered, Guineas!
"M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur.""
G.J. Whyte-Melville
"Therefore, as I was about to say, the Proletary draws to himself the money of the country," resumed Grossetete.
"The Village Rector"
Honore de Balzac