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• Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their…
• In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite,…
• Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the…
• With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of…
• The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both.
• There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.
• Invention is the mother of necessity.
• In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
• The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical…
• It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the rest of…
• Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
• All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

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