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The Silver Spoon

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"The Silver Spoon" is a novel by John Galsworthy, published in 1926. It is part of his trilogy A Modern Comedy, which continues the story of the fictional Forsyte family after World War I. The Forsytes are an upper-middle-class English family known for their strong attachment to wealth and property. The phrase "born with a silver spoon in one's mouth" signifies inherited wealth, a concept central to the Forsyte family's identity and Galsworthy's critique of their values.123

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