The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
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He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.
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