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“The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste.”

Needs Quality Audience Greater Taste Standards

Author:Moses Hadas

“The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from every-day life. Relatively few are free enough from the spell of the daily routine to respond to rappings from outside, and tales of ordinary feelings and events, or of common sentimental distortions of such feelings and events, will always take first place in the taste of the majority; rightly, perhaps, since of course these ordinary matters make up the greater part of human experience.”

Source: H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)

“A delicacy of taste is favorable to love and friendship, by confining our choice to few people, and making us indifferent to the company and conversation of the greater part of men.”

People Men Choices Company Greater Taste Conversation Indifferent Our Choices Delicacy Love And Friendship

Book:Essays Moral, Political, and Literary

Source: Essays Moral, Political, and Literary

“My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually demand greater reductions in the length of the working week.”

Giving Greater Week Taste Demand Workers Patterns Length Flexible Reduction

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“Portrait photography never had any charms for me, so I sought my subjects from the house-tops, and finally from the hill-tops and about the surrounding country; the taste strengthening as my successes became greater in proportion to the failures.”

Country House Greater Subjects Taste Photography Hills Charm Proportion Portraits Strengthening Portrait Photography

Author:William Henry Jackson

“Everybody is always talking about droughts and sea level rise, but when human civilization, with more crowding and greater resource depletion, is under that much stress, it translates into wars and huge displaced populations. The Syrian refugee crisis is just a first taste of what it's going to be like. I don't want my kids growing up in that kind of world.”

“Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse”

Men World Firsts Loss Greater Tree Taste Fruit Mortals Seats Heavenly Muse Woe Forbidden Disobedience Eden Paradise Lost Book 9 Paradise Lost Book 1 Epic Poetry

Author:John Milton

“The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.”

Greater Genius Taste Proof Obscure

Book:Revolution

Source: Revolution