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I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substit

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence. – Christopher Hampton

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To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious? – Christopher Hampton

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No matter her past, when a chambermaid marries a lord she becomes a lady. – Proverb

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This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise. – Dante Alighieri

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Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets! – Thomas Carlyle

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The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate. – Aristotle

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