"One of the ironies in social climbing is that if you are successful, your children will ultimately belong to a different class from yours. There is something sad in that this was your ambition, yet if you achieve it, you have in a sense alienated yourself from your own children."
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Q&A with Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes (July 22, 2021)
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