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The Book of Snobs

CHAPTER II--THE SNOB ROYAL
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The other Flunkeys we never saw more.
My dear Flunkeys, so absurdly conceited at one moment and so abject at the next, are but the types of their masters in this world.

HE WHO MEANLY ADMIRES MEAN THINGS IS A SNOB--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.
And this is why I have, with the utmost respect, ventured to place The Snob Royal at the head of my list, causing all others to give way before him, as the Flunkeys before the royal representative in Kensington Gardens.

To say of such and such a Gracious Sovereign that he is a Snob, is but to say that his Majesty is a man.

Kings, too, are men and Snobs.
In a country where Snobs are in the majority, a prime one, surely, cannot be unfit to govern.

With us they have succeeded to admiration.
For instance, James I.was a Snob, and a Scotch Snob, than which the world contains no more offensive creature.


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