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• One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real…
• The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic…
• The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to…
• Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or…
• True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated…
• If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it…
• Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near…
• The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person…
• One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the…
• From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the…
• A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.
• Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

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