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Quote by Arthur Balfour
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to i

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. – Arthur Balfour

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The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done. – Arthur Balfour

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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. – Michelangelo

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Vision is the true creative rhythm. – Robert Delaunay

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found. – Wilson Mizner

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Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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