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«Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.»
Author: Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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convention, elegance, preciousness, refinement, The Fall, urgent, Yale
«We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance - and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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association, bonds, chains, circumstance, convention, custom, environment, free association, go in, in chains, in vain, strongest, struggle, The Association, the Convention, the conventions, training, vain
«We are all convention; convention carries us away, and we neglect the substance of things. . . / We dare not call our parts by their right names, but are not afraid to use them for every sort of debauchery.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
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convention, debaucheries, debauchery, neglect, substance
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