One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.
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Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
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Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.
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For tens of millions of people television has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.
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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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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.
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