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It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.

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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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A samurai will use a toothpick even though he has not eaten. Inside the skin of a dog, outside the hide of… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Bill Walton is incredible. If you drop a toothpick on his foot, he'll have a stress fracture. — Stan Albeck
It's probably not a good idea to be chewing on a toothpick if you're talking to the president, because what if he… — Jack Handey
I can snap your spine like a toothpick. — Dave Barry
It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick. — Louis Kronenberger
Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick — Charles Petzold
...When it was finished, the scaled dragon looked around and as the thing spotted V, a growl rippled up to the bleachers,… — J R Ward
To Garan's credit, the treatment of Dellian prisoners did change after that. One particularly laconic man, after a session in which Fire… — Kristin Cashore
Hey!" I turned, crossing my arms and glaring. "I was talking to him!" Tybalt eyed me with amusement, which just made me… — Mira Grant
Would you leave me alone, you walking pair of boots! Let go of my easel, you refugee from a luggage factory. If… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Could you please explain to me exactly what the staff is that you carry?" Cronus proudly held the symbol of his power… — Stuart Hill
Did she just call me a bleeding toothpick? Kill her! Kill her now! — Jennifer Estep

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