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Famous quotes containing the word display:

    “Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest; it oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy; a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: “It’s four o’clock ... At five I have my abyss.””
    —Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954)

    “Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.”
    —Maurice Blanchot (b. 1907)