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Joshua Reynolds

"Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius."

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"The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas."

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"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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"If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency."
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