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It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow. The traveller who stops at the best houses, so called, soon discovers this, for the publicans presume him to be a Sardanapalus, and if he resigned himself to their tender mercies he would soon be completely emasculated.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
it referred to what the piece defined as tastelessness marked by "a contrast of luxury and squalor."$9
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
