One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting.
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This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts.
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