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The only upstanding aesthetician in all of Western history is the respectable English gentleman Oscar Wilde. According to Wilde: - [Oscar] "Those who find ugly meanings "in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. "This is a fault. "Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things "are the cultivated. "For these, there is hope. "They are the elect to whom beautiful things "mean only beauty."
— Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)