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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
Credit
Upton Sinclair

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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Modesty
Dame Edith Sitwell

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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
Vulgarity
Dame Edith Sitwell

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
Life and Living
Socrates

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Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
Literature
Susan Sontag

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What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.
Mind
Roger Sperry

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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Modesty
Sir Richard Steele

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Everything in moderation -- including moderation.
Moderation
Harvey Steiman

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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
Modern and Modernism
Wallace Stevens

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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
Moderation
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.
Modesty
Mark Twain

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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Mark Twain

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Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess.
Moderation
Source Unknown

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Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy.
Vulgarity
Source Unknown

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Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.
Arrogance
Baron Wessenberg

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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
Platitudes
Oscar Wilde

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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
Modern and Modernism
Oscar Wilde

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Moderation
Oscar Wilde

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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
Fashion
Oscar Wilde

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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
Information
Oscar Wilde

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Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.
Debt
Earl Wilson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun