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The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

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The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is. . . present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.

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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.

Aptitude, Habit, Habituation, Individual, Life, Quite

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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