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“The highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste, and who show themselves unfriendly, ungrateful, and troublesome to us.”

Shows Seeing Taste Degrees Highest Saint Occasions Serving Ungrateful Troublesome Meekness Unfriendly

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason. If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.”

Ifs Art Reason Feelings Would Be Taste Speech Occasions Obliged Theoretical Deliberation Every Occasion

Author:William Hazlitt

“In the busy city, dying might be resented as a breach of good taste, and the body hastily dispatched to the undertaker and the crematorium; but in Lost Haven, where a man's mates had to turn out and dig his grave, it was an occasion shared by the whole community.”

Men Whole Body Might Turns Lost Community Cities Dying Havens Taste Busy Graves Occasions Mates Good Taste Breach Undertaker

Book:Lost Haven

Source: Lost Haven

“The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives.”

Our Lives Taste Occasions Instability Irregularity

Book:Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld

Source: Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld

“You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.”

People Character Desire Advice Expression Taste Asking Architecture Occasions

Book:The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

“Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that were offenses against any criteria of taste and decency, reels and reels of perversion and blasphemy that stunned my disbelieving eyes, the shocked my virginal mind, and sealed my valve.”

Mind Eye Social Taste Horror Notes Attraction Occasions Abortion Offense Shocked Decency Criteria Blasphemy Perversion Stunned Valve

Book:A Confederacy of Dunces

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

“He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the memory, a wound that would ache whenever certain things combined - the taste of gin at mid-day, the smell of flowers under a balcony, the clang of corrugated iron, an ugly bird flopping from perch to perch.”

Men Made Certain Memories Forget Flower Taste Bird Ugly Smell Wounds Occasions Iron Never Forget Ache Gin Balconies Flopping

Book:Conversations with Graham Greene

Source: Conversations with Graham Greene