From this unpromising start, the story apparently went, the youngparvenufounded a great people.
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Later (clearly after the ascent of theparvenu), the sages continue, many forms of death and suffering will descend on the kingdom.
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My noble friend who sits below me, and leads me, is aparvenucompared with me and others of us.
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Perhaps its sense of noblesse oblige does not quite square with theparvenuerstwhile direct grant schools, which are trying to gain status from the scheme rather than anything else.
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These people, though, had their hands full with the "parvenus", supplying them with enough money, a burden that weighed on the poors backs.
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Old money contrasts with the "nouveau riche" and "parvenus".
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They served theparvenuwell.
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