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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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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. – Samuel Butler

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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence. – Samuel Butler

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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. – Henry Adams

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

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Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. – Lord Chesterfield

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A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs. – Coco Chanel

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