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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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Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets. – Arthur Balfour

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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. – Charles Baudelaire

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