The clerk might turn out a scholar on your hands, and the peer no better than a poor spendthrift;--but the chances are the other way.
A tufthunter is a snob, a parasite is a snob, the man who allows the manhood within him to be awed by a coronet is a snob.

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

But so also is he who, in fear lest he should be called a snob, is afraid to seek the acquaintance,--or if it come to speak of the acquaintance,--of those whose acquaintance is manifestly desirable.

In all this I feel that Thackeray was carried beyond the truth by his intense desire to put down what is mean.
It is in truth well for us all to know what constitutes snobbism, and I think that Thackeray, had he not been driven to dilution and dilatation, could have told us.

If you will keep your hands from picking and stealing, and your tongue from evil speaking, lying, and slandering, you will not be a snob.