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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 Thackeray
Men, Intellectual, Social
William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval”, p.119
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.