Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.
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Painting consumes labour not disproportionate to its effect but a fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty.Samuel Johnson
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He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
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Around his tomb let Art and Genius weep But hear his death, ye blockheads hear and sleep.
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But Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England.
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Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
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