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"It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob."
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"The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but penetrating, as though he were undressing them. This is followed either by complete and pained silence or a comment such as Thats really a very pleasant little water color you have there."
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Snob is a pejorative term for a person who feels superior due to their social class, education level, or social status in general; it is sometimes used especially when they pretend to belong to these classes. The word snobbery came into use for the first time in England during the 1820s.
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"And heres a marvelous one, quoted from Sonia by Stephen Spender. "Auschwitz, oh, dear no! That person was never in Auschwitz. Only in some very minor death camp." The ultimate in English snobbery."
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"He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob."
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"Mike: What do you mean snob? Tracy: Youre the worst kind there is. An intellectual snob. You made up your mind awfully young, it seems to me. Mike: Well, thirtys about time to make up your mind. And Im nothing of the sort, not Mr. Connor. Tracy: The time to make up your mind about people — is never."
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"Always judge your fellow passengers to be the opposite of what they strive to appear to be. For instance, a military man is not quarrelsome, for no man doubts his courage; but a snob is."
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"Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid."
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