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"The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament."

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A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.

— George Eliot

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That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

— Jonathan Swift

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