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Updated: May 3, 2025

Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also? If we render unto that old hut-dweller the things which are that old hut-dweller's, we must concede him his picturesqueness. He was dirty, and he was not respectable; but he is picturesque now that he is dead.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich - An Old Town By the Sea