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Style is the image of character. - Edward Gibbon

Style is the image of character. – Edward Gibbon

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Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. – Edward Gibbon

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The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant. – Edward Gibbon

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

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

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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. – Renata Adler

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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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