The truth is, everyone likes to look down on someone. If your favorites are all avant-garde writers who throw in Sanskrit and German, you can look down on everyone. If your favorites are all Oprah Book Club books, you can at least look down on...
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Brent Weeks
Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.
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Amit Kalantri
You despise the real bourgeois classes for all their snobbishness and their snobbish voices and ways. You do, don't you? Yet all you put in their place is a horrid little refusal to have nasty thoughts or do nasty things or be nasty in any...
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John Fowles
There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.
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Dorothy Salisbury Davis
The public has a taste for supping with the great.
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Ulick OConnor
More Quotes By John Buchan
The more doubtful the political outlook the fiercer will be the dogmas which men create and contend for.
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
It was strange how fear had gone, now that we knew the worst and had a fighting man by our side.
When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty.
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
