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There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.

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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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Necessity dispenseth with decorum. — Thomas Carlyle
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There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum. — Thorstein Veblen
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What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact. — Donald E. Williams, Jr.
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The sight of a paunchy playboy groping a scantily-dressed Diana must appal and humiliate Prince William... As the mother of two young… — Lynda Lee-Potter
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As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How… — Anne Carson
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