Scott Flowers

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    Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more care than that. Proverbial expressions, and trite sayings, are the flowers of the rhetoric of vulgar man.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)