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Meanwhile one can observe on every side that dreary phenomenon, the middle-class person who is an ardent Socialist at twenty-five and a sniffish Conservative at thirty-five.
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For every person there, male and female, bore the worst stigmata of sniffish middle-class superiority.
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Meanwhile one can observe on every side that dreary phenomenon, the middle-class person who is an ardent Socialist at twenty-five and a sniffish Conservative at thirty-five.
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For every person there, male and female, bore the worst stigmata of sniffish middle-class superiority.
jodi commented on the word sniffish
"He had not that sniffish, buttoned-up spirit that usually goes with an ability to make money." - George Orwell Keep the Aspidistra Flying
March 4, 2018