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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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When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented. – Samuel Butler

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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. – Samuel Butler

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

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Style is the image of character. – Edward Gibbon

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Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. – Martin Amis

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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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