“The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.”
"Reading", p. 6
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
“Regrettably, one of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.”
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