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William Makepeace Thackeray on Society

1811–1863 England

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It is impossible, in our condition of society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

The Book of Snobs (1848)

The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion.

Vanity Fair; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

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