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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines…
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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a…
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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes…
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The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand…
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Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have…
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Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments…
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I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of…
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The supply of government exceeds demand.
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A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the…
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The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations…
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The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a…
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Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity.…
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A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it…
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Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
— George Meredith
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Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade)
— Kate Spade
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We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men,…
— Robert Adam
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Dandyism is a variety of genius.
— William Hazlitt
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These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.
— Sebastian Horsley
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A man who reads a book for no particular profit becomes, while he reads, a gentleman, a man of leisure, a dandy…
— John Updike
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