"Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtaken by it."
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Quoted by William Hazlitt in Conversations of James Northcote, Esq., R.A. (1830)
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James Northcote
1746 – 1831
James Northcote RA (22 October 1746 – 13 July 1831) was an English painter.
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