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“People at an art school either do an atrocious amount of work or do no work at all.”

“It cannot be too often repeated that all real democracy is an attempt (like that of a jolly hostess) to bring shy people out…Democracy means getting those people to vote who would never have the cheek to govern: and (according to Christian ethics) the precise people who ought to govern are the people who have not the cheek to do it.”

“Being a nation means standing up to your equals, whereas being an empire only means kicking your inferiors.”

“This strong, square shape, this shutting off of everything else is not only an assistance to beauty; it is the essential of beauty. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.”

“Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fair tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.”

“For my friend said he opened his intellect as the sun opens the fans of the palm tree, opening for opening’s sake, opening infinitely for ever. But I said that I opened my intellect as I opened my mouth, in order to shut it again on something solid.”