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— Jane Austen"I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man."
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Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice.
— Edmund Burke
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