National Artists

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“Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.”
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“When ... did the word “temperament” come into fashion with us?... whatever it stands for, it long since became a great social asset for women, and a great social excuse for men. Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings.”
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