People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable. -Samuel Butler

 

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable.


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Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

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