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That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Age: 52 †
Born: 1811
Born: July 18
Died: 1863
Died: December 24
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When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.
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I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.
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When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.
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Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!
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The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
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Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.
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He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.
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The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.
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Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.
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