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— Charles Caleb Colton"A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference."
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Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.
— Honore de Balzac
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Lord Bacon has compared those who move in higher spheres to those heavenly bodies in the firmament, which have much admiration, but little rest. And it is not necessary to invest a wise man with power to convince him that it is a garment bedizened with gold, which dazzles the beholder by its splendor, but oppresses the wearer by its weight.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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