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“Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.”
“The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but penetrating, as though he were undressing them. This is followed either by complete and pained silence or a comment such as 'That's really a very pleasant little water color you have there.'”
“The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side. … After a long period of gazing (during which he may occasionally squint his eyes), he will approach to within a few inches of the picture and examine the brushwork; he will then return to his former distant position, give the picture another glance and walk away.”
“He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.”
“It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.”
“"Snobbery" is here used without disrespect, as a convenient term to denote the element of strain involved in the quest for gentility on the part of persons whose accustomed social standing is less high or less authentic than their aspirations.”
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Snobs is a nightclub in Birmingham, England. It is located on Smallbrook Queensway at the corner of Hurst Street. The club was founded 50 years ago in 1972, and has been visited by over 2.5 million people during its time.
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