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“Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.”

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Author:William Hazlitt

“Fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity.”

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Book:the works of beaumont and fletcher.

Source: the works of beaumont and fletcher.

“Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more care than that. Proverbial expressions, and trite sayings, are the flowers of the rhetoric of vulgar man.”

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Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great care to speak very correctly and grammatically, and to pronounce properly; that is, according to the usage of the best companies.”

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Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity, vulgarity, anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.”

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Author:Louis Sullivan