In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for … - Thorstein Veblen

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The mirror we hold up to the person next to us is one of the most important pictures she will ever see.

Thorstein Veblen

In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at hand is felt in popular apprehension to call for explanation, and unworthy motives of miserliness are imputed.

Consumption, Hand, Hands, Increase, Mean, Occurs

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These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore a habit formed in response to a given stimulus will necessarily affect the character of the response made to other stimuli. A modification of human nature at any one point is a modification of human nature as a whole.

Character, Expression, Formed, Human, Nature, Single Life

Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate any individual's scheme of life.

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The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.

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Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.

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The corset is?a mutilation, undergone for the purpose of lowering the subject's vitalityand rendering her permanentlyand obviously unfit for work.

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