... if I had five thousand a year." (from Vanity Fair) The book brought him prosperity and made him established writer and popular lecturer in Europe and in the United States. The etymological studying of the word snob it show's us that it comes from abbreviation of ''it self-nobility'' words (without nobility). Strictly etymological, a snob is, a man without nobility, without emblem. In England ... more suited to Mr. Osborne, with the nobleman of birth and breeding who played some part in the history of his time, and, even in the hour of his decay, sat at prince Polonia's table, "a greater...

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