"There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue."
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"There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue."
"Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail."
"The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while."
"Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious. Like if Barbie were suddenly possessed by Atilla the Hun."
"There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion."
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