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Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he

Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it. – Samuel Butler

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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. – Samuel Butler

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Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life — its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness — conjoin to dull our sensory faculties. – Susan Sontag

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I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. – Bernard Berenson

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The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. – Thomas Love Peacock

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The biggest waste of water in the country is when you spend half a pint and flush two gallons. – Prince Philip Edinburgh

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