Anthony PowellWhat a shabby lot of highbrows have turned out tonight, " he said, when he saw us. "It makes me ashamed to be one.
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Oscar Wilde was referring to the cultural elite of Victorian society. He was referring to those who had come to look down on and sneer at the people who were not as educated as them. Oscar Wilde was not aware that Victorian culture would be overthrown by a barbarian, or that thousands of years later we would be able to laugh at their snobbishness.
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