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1. "A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts." ~ Joshua Reynolds
2. "There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking." ~ Joshua Reynolds
3. "The real character of a man is found out by his amusements." ~ Joshua Reynolds
4. "All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master." ~ Joshua Reynolds
5. "The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it." ~ Joshua Reynolds
6. "It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk." ~ Joshua Reynolds
7. "The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it." ~ Joshua Reynolds
8. "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." ~ Joshua Reynolds
9. "A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great." ~ Joshua Reynolds
10. "Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius." ~ Joshua Reynolds
11. "Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers." ~ Joshua Reynolds
12. "If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency." ~ Joshua Reynolds

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And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst"
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