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Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice. - Edmund Burke Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate. - William Hazlitt (1) The wisest woman you talk with is ignorant of something that you know; but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company. - Julia Ward Howe (Howel) When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home. - Walter Savage Landor Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance. - Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater) Elegance is exquisite polish. - Madame Suzanne Curchod Necker Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man. - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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