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Template:R: Reynold's Newspaper 1 August 1848

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The Garrick Club is one of those snob snuggeries that abound in London. It consists, for the greater part, of comic authors, Whig journalists, tenth-rate artists, Irish and Ethiopian melodists, fast barristers, faded dandies, “unspeakable” M.P.’s, roue noblemen, impudent showmen, together with a small, miscellaneous shoal of insignificant individuals whose sole title to distinction is that they are inveterate and intense tufthunters. The Garrick has for its object the cultivation of priggism; the enabling of its members to meet for the purposes of mutual “clawing” and congratulations, and the enjoyment of cheap, fashionable dissipations.

—From Reynolds's Newspaper, 1 August 1858

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