If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
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Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
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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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A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
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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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