Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Elegance
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Knowledge is the only elegance.
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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
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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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If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review,in such manner as that we could, at leisure, and critically inspect their behavior, we might find no gentleman, and no lady; for, although excellent specimens of courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage, in the particulars, we should detect offence. Because, elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.
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Self-command is the main elegance.
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