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  • The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.

    - Alan Bennett
      FortyYears On (published1969), act 2. Snobbery With Violence was used as a book title by Colin Wilson (1971).

  • Snobbery? But it's onlya form of despair.

    - Ioseph Brodsky
      Less Than One,'Flight From Byzantium'.

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