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Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
Journalist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Painter
Philosopher
Writer
Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
Overtaken
Gentility
Vulgarity
Afraid
Fashion
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