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“There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint at the sight of new possessions they are about to obtain. In their intense and exclusive anxiety to make a fortune they lose sight of the close connection that exists between the private fortune of each and the prosperity of all.”

“Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar.”

Persons Able Fashion Taste Instance Fancy Restraint Vulgar Trifling

Book:The works in verse and prose, of William Shenstone, esq: in two volumes

Source: The works in verse and prose, of William Shenstone, esq: in two volumes

“Where would anyone in publicity be if they allowed sensitivity, restraint, breeding or good taste to stand in their way?”

Ifs Way Taste Restraint Sensitivity Publicity Breeding Good Taste

Book:Moncrieff: a novel

Source: Moncrieff: a novel

“Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames.”

Fall Taste Letters Flames Restraint Cliffs Love Letter Falling Off Falling Off A Cliff

Book:The Love Letter

Source: The Love Letter

“In civic life, I think that's where you can debate what is good taste and what is acceptable to other people, and what's gonna offend people. Do that there, but leave it out of art, because art is the one frontier that shouldn't have restraints put on it.”

People Thinking Art Taste Art Is Debate Acceptable Restraint Frontiers Civics Good Taste

Author:Irvine Welsh

“When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint . . . . It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold. . . . they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters.”

People Men Self Order Enjoy Loses Rights Violence Masters Taste Chiefs Neglect Restraint Gratification Carried Away Self Restraint

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville