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" Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. "
Oscar Wilde
Act
Temper
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" In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives. "
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