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"No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind."
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"What is easy is seldom excellent."
"It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet."
"Quality is better than quantity."
"The best trees produce the sweetest fruits."
"A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be."
"The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs."
"Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives."
Explore more quotes by Cyril Connolly
"Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature."
"There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives."
"When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin."
"A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out."
"Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium."
"It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing."
"The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven."
"No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book."
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