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"Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

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"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."

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"The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple."
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