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> [“In fact, in this modern England of ours, this fatherland of snobdom, one passes one's life in a see-saw of doubt, between the Scylla and Charybdis of those two antithetical social dangers: You are always afraid you may get to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grant-allen/in-fact-in-this-modern-england-of-ours-this-fatherland-of-snobdom-one/)

[Grant Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grant-allen/)

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## More by Grant Allen

> [“if people begin by thinking rationally, the danger is that they may end by acting rationally also.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grant-allen/if-people-begin-by-thinking-rationally-the-danger-is-that-they-may/)

[Grant Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grant-allen/)

> [“It is almost impossible to get a novel printed in an English journal unless it is warranted to contain nothing at all to which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grant-allen/it-is-almost-impossible-to-get-a-novel-printed-in-an-english-journal/)

[Grant Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grant-allen/)

> [“If there is an injustice or a barbarity possible, I might have been sure the law of England would make haste to perpetrate it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grant-allen/if-there-is-an-injustice-or-a-barbarity-possible-i-might-have-been/)

[Grant Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grant-allen/)

> [What we each fall in love with individually is, I believe, our moral, mental, and physical complement. Not our like, not our counterpart; quite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grant-allen/what-we-each-fall-in-love-with-individually-is-i-believe-our-moral/)

[Grant Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grant-allen/)

> [“Professional considerations made the Dean refrain from endorsing this open expression of murderous sentiment in its fullest form; a clergyman ought always to keep…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grant-allen/professional-considerations-made-the-dean-refrain-from-endorsing-this/)

[Grant Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grant-allen/)

> [What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grant-allen/what-a-misfortune-it-is-that-we-should-thus-be-compelled-to-let-our/)

[Grant Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grant-allen/)

> [“Philip owned a looking-glass, and was therefore accustomed to a very high standard of manly beauty.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grant-allen/philip-owned-a-looking-glass-and-was-therefore-accustomed-to-a-very/)

[Grant Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grant-allen/)

> [“Now, nothing annoys an angry savage or an uneducated person so much as the perfect coolness of a civilized and cultivated man when he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grant-allen/now-nothing-annoys-an-angry-savage-or-an-uneducated-person-so-much-as/)

[Grant Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grant-allen/)

> [“In fact, in this modern England of ours, this fatherland of snobdom, one passes one's life in a see-saw of doubt, between the Scylla…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grant-allen/in-fact-in-this-modern-england-of-ours-this-fatherland-of-snobdom-one/)

[Grant Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grant-allen/)

> [“I beg your pardon," Philip interposed stiffly, now put upon his mettle. "We have no taboos at all in England. ... England, you must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grant-allen/i-beg-your-pardon-philip-interposed-stiffly-now-put-upon-his-mettle/)

[Grant Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grant-allen/)

> [“They were savages, yet they were ghosts. The two most terrible and dreaded foes of civilised experience seemed combined at once in them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grant-allen/they-were-savages-yet-they-were-ghosts-the-two-most-terrible-and/)

[Grant Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grant-allen/)

> [“A bullet would perhaps be an unnecessarily severe form of punishment to mete out; but I confess I could excuse the man who was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grant-allen/a-bullet-would-perhaps-be-an-unnecessarily-severe-form-of-punishment/)

[Grant Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grant-allen/)

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