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Dear, dear, it only shows that there is nothing diviner about a king than there is about a tramp, after all. He is just a cheap and hollow artificiality when you don't know he is a king. But reveal his quality, and dear me it takes your very breath away to look at him. I reckon we are all fools. Born so, no doubt.
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― A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
― A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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Compare with Greek art, modern classical art is lacking in warmth and immediacy; it has a derived, retrospective, and, even in the Renaissance, a more or less classicistic character. It It is the reflection of a society which, filled with reminiscences of Roman heroism and medieval chivalry, tries to appear to be something which it is not, by following an artificially produced social and moral code, and which stylizes the whole pattern of its life in accordance with this fictitious scheme. Class
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― The Social History of Art: Volume 2: Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque
― The Social History of Art: Volume 2: Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque