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Dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.
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Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.. It is a setting sun... like the declining star, it is magnificent, without heat and full of melancholy. But alas! The rising tide of democracy, which spreads everywhere and reduces everything to the same level, is daily carrying away these last champions of human pride, and submerging, in the waters of oblivion, the last traces of these remarkable myrmidons.
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