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

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

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The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, — luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, — are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. – Cyril Connolly

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