No; the two kinds of people on earth I mean
Are the people who lift and the people who lean.
Wherever you go, you will find the earth’s masses
Are always divided in just these two classes.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American author and poet.
“Which Are You?” st. 6-7, Poems of Power (1902)
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Sometimes titled "Lifting and Leaning".

 
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