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“I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.”
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“I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”
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“The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.”
― A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
― A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
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