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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exce

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. – Confucius

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Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. – Ezra Pound

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