Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life.William M. Thackeray
She looks so haughty that I should have thought her a princess at the very least, with a pedigree reaching as far back as the Deluge. But this lady was no better born than many other ladies who give themselves airs and all sensible people laughed at her absurd pretensions.
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Who misses, or who wins the prizeGo, lose and conquer as you canBut if you fail, or if you rise,Be each, pray God, a gentleman.
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I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do -- a Work, if you like, with a great W a Purpose to fulfil.
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When we say of a gentleman that he lives elegantly on nothing a year, we use the word nothing to signify something unknown meaning, simply, that we don't know how the gentleman in question defrays the expenses of his establishment.
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Everyone knows the harm the bad do, but who knows the mischief done by the good
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