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作者:两块      更新:2021-02-18 22:15      字数:1488
  your shoes any more。  Your footmen do it; but they are
  paid; and the fellow who comes to get a list of the
  company when you give a banquet or a dancing breakfast at
  Longueoreille House; gets money from the newspapers for
  performing that service。  But for us; thank you for
  nothing; Longears my boy; and we don't wish to pay you
  any more than we owe。  We will take off our hats to
  Wellington because he is Wellington; but to youwho are
  you?〃
  I am sick of COURT CIRCULARS。  I loathe HAUT…TON
  intelligence。  I believe such words as Fashionable;
  Exclusive; Aristocratic; and the like; to be wicked;
  unchristian epithets; that ought to be banished from
  honest vocabularies。  A Court system that sends men of
  genius to the second table; I hold to be a Snobbish
  system。  A society that sets up to be polite; and ignores
  Arts and Letters; I hold to be a Snobbish society。  You;
  who despise your neighbour; are a Snob; you; who forget
  your own friends; meanly to follow after those of a
  higher degree; are a Snob; you; who are ashamed of your
  poverty; and blush for your calling; are a Snob; as are
  you who boast of your pedigree; or are proud of your
  wealth。
  To laugh at such is MR。 PUNCH'S business。  May he laugh
  honestly; hit no foul blow; and tell the truth when at
  his very broadest grinnever forgetting that if Fun is
  good; Truth is still better; and Love best of all。
  End