A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
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That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
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