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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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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. – 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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The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them. – G. K. Chesterton

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

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What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. – Charles Baudelaire

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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. – Jean De La Bruyere

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