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    Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
    Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

    The Gods have meant
    That I should dance
    And by the Gods
    I will!
    —Ruth St. Denis (1877–1968)

    No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)