"Elegance has nothing to do with fashion."
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"Self-command is the main elegance."
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"Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth."
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"It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage."
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"Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners."
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"Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance"
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"In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance."
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"Elegance and beauty have been banished."
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"Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety."
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"Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed."
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"Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown."
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"Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it."
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"He endearing elegance of female friendship."
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"Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man."
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"There are very few things in life I find that are as magical in person as you imagine them to be. Cannes was one of those experiences that held up to that magical essence. It's the epitome of class and elegance for the entertainment industry."
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"Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life."
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"Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution."
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