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"Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed."
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"If the path is beautiful, all you have to do when walking in that path is to be beautiful so as to not ruin the beauty of the path!"

"Do what is beautiful to make yourself beautiful."

"This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!"

"There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection."

"How can you find new beauty if you are never allowed to get out of conformity?"

"The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!"
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"Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims."

"The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised."

"If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument."

"All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand."

"Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art."

"Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them."

"As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things."
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