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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.


Edward Albee

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EDWARD FAIRFAX The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD WINDSOR There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himse...
EDWARD STEICHEN Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and ski...
EDWARD STEICHEN The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a...
EDWARD STEICHEN Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for o...
EDWARD WESTON Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
EDWARD EGGLESTON The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
EDWARD THOMAS Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and ...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
EDWARD GIBBON We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even w...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommenda...
EDWARD GIBBON