I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
William Makepeace ThackerayA snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.
William Makepeace ThackerayHow hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.
William Makepeace ThackerayBe it remembered that man subsists upon the air more than upon his meat and drink; but no one can exist for an hour without a copious supply of air. The atmosphere which some breathe is contaminated and adulterated, and with its vital principles so diminished that it cannot fully decarbonize the blood, nor fully excite the nervous system.
William Makepeace Thackeray