The greatest field for snobbery is the Monarchy, which succeeds in doing more harm than most English people suppose. Few people can bring themselves to treat the opinions of a monarch with no more respect than they would show to those of a common mortal, and yet the education and surroundings of royalty are hardly such as to promote intelligence.
Source:On snobbery (written in Dec. 30, 1931 and pub. in Mortals and Others, v.1, 1975
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