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A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

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There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

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A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

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All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.

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

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Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

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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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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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It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Artist

Born: July 16th, 1723

Died: February 23rd, 1792

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