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People care more about being thought to have taste than about bein

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

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We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. – Samuel Butler

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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself. – Vicomte De Chateaubriand

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No taste is so acquired as that for someone elses quality of mind. – Cyril Connolly

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Bad taste is a species of bad morals. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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