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All the kids in my town, and in my state, and in my whole section of the country go to the common schools. Children should start life as equals. There is no snobbery so cruel as the snobbery that marks off childhood into classes! When you women vote here, the first thing to do is to smash that nonsense. But in the meantime keep the kids in school." "We've talked that all over," she answered.
Peter was guilty of snobbery. He considered it quite a justifiable weapon. "She is at Windsor this afternoon," he remarked. "What, at the Garden-Party?" Mrs. Heseltine-Wrigge almost shrieked. Peter nodded. "I believe there's some fete or other to-morrow," he said, "but we're alone this evening. Why won't you dine with us, say at the Carlton?" "We'd love to," the lady assented, promptly.
The party was a great success, and only the other day I met a woman who had been one of the guests and she still remembered it as one of the striking events of her childhood. "My mother influenced me in those days in many ways that I shall never forget, especially in her hatred of anything that savored of snobbery.
If she had any snobbery in her she'd be here to-night, rubbing elbows with the women who never knew of her existence twenty years ago, although their husbands did.
No man has impaled snobbery with such a stinging rapier, but he always accused himself of being a snob, past all cure. This I make no doubt was one of his exaggerations, but there was a grain of truth in the remark, which so sharp an observer as himself could not fail to notice, even though the victim was so near home.
For those Anglo-Saxon deities, Mammon and Snobbery, who have since conquered the whole civilized globe, had temporarily fallen back for a fresh spring, and in the eighties and early nineties Culture was reckoned very nearly as chic as motoring in the first years of the new century. Several painters of various degrees of talent attempted to fix on canvas the extraordinary charm of Mrs.
Elisabeth spoke severely; she was always merciless upon anything in the shape of humbug or snobbery. Maria Farringdon's training had not been thrown away. "I despise mere frivolity," said Cecil loftily. "My dear Mr.
His reception was offensively cold, and George III ran some risk when he affronted his most popular subject by turning his back on him. Whatever private indiscretions Nelson may have been guilty of, nothing could justify so ungrateful an act of ill-mannered snobbery. The King should have known how to distinguish between private weakness, however unconventional, and matchless public service.
Such young men, if they really need to study, should be educated at the expense of their families. Both the High School and the community can easily dispense with the presence of snobs and snobbery. "I guess there'll be some real soreness in some heads this morning," laughed Tom's father. "Won't there!" ejaculated Tom, and hurried out into the street.
Suppose I put an extreme case to you suppose a pleasant young bachelor who admired our bowling showed himself by his shoe laces to be a secret wife-beater. What could we do? Cut so unique a friend? Ah no. Let us pray to remain in ignorance of the faults of those we like. Let us pray it as sincerely as we pray that they shall remain in ignorance of ours. Intellectual Snobbery
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