Quote by Samuel Butler
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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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. – Samuel Butler

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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. – Samuel Butler

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A mans palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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Every orientation presupposes a disorientation. – Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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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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