“The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.”
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Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.
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A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
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The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.
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Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.
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It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.
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