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novelty

«Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment»
«Every innovation occasions more harm and and derangement of order by its novelty, than benefit by its abstract utility»
Author: Legal Maxim | About: Innovation | Keywords: derangement, novelty, utility
«Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.»
«Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.»
«It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power»
«Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty»
«A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.»
«Happiness ain't a thing in itself /it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.»
«All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Wonder | Keywords: novelty
«America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.»