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It may be whispered to those uninitiated people who are anxious to know the habits and make the acquaintance of men of letters, that there are no race of people who talk about books, or, perhaps, who read books, so little as literary men.
— William Makepeace Thackeray The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes
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It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
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