“The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.”

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The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part IX - A Painter's Views on Painting

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novelist 1835–1902

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