In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.
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It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.Russell Lynes
The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.
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A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.
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Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.
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If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.
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