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Undressing the Victorians.
Manners are of more importance than law.... The law touches us but here and there and now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform and insensible operation like that of the air we breathe in.
--Edmund Burke, "Letters on a Regicide Peace"
The artist used to be at war with the Philistine. Today, for fear of being minted with elitism or with failing to meet the elementary requirements of the democratic outlook, your intellectual abases himself before the power-hungry world of show-business, or fashion, or advertising.
--Alain Finkielkraut, The Undoing of ...
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