Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt

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    “Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.”
    —Amy Vanderbilt (1908–1974)