Such sort of people

“Let me counsel you to remember that a lady, whether so called from birth or only from fortune, should never degrade herself by being put on a level with writers, and such sort of people.”

miser Mr. Briggs, Cecilia’s guardian, who refuses to give her any of her own money to pay the bookseller
Fanny Burney’s Cecilia, volume 2, book 3, chapter 2

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