establishment quotes

As to marriage on the part of a man, my dear, Society requires that heshould retrieve his fortunes by marriage. Society requires that he should gain by marriage. Society requires that he should found a handsome establishment by marriage. Society does not see, otherwise, what he has to do with marriage. Bleak House

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^7  Mrs Merdle. Little Dorrit, bk.1, ch.33.

His career was a text book example of the rise of a patrician in the snug embrace of the American establishment.

-Time
Of Dean Acheson. 25 Oct.