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He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.

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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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