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In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

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All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.

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To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

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Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

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Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

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From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren't many of those folks. They could recognize each other's style by their dots and dashes. They called that the "fist." St. George, they have a fist. You taste something from St. George, even across categories - the gin, the whisky - it tastes like something from St. George. It's the same as going to a great bar: You get the soul of the person making it.

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Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in which we increased our ownership to just under 10%, the most we can own without the approval of the Federal Reserve Board.

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The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.

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He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

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It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.

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The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.

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In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

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The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.

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Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.

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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

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From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren't many of those folks. They could recognize each other's style by their dots and dashes.

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