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Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful -- just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements; and about once in so often we go back and begin again.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.