“I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.”

—  Burton Rascoe

"Contemporary Reminiscences" in Arts & Decoration, Vol. 26 (1927), p. 50

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