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    To the man who loves art for its own sake,... it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    He’s a comer. That’s what comers do: they get in your face.
    Michael Tolkin, U.S. screenwriter, and Robert Altman. Dick Mellen (Sydney Pollack)

    When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte,
    As every child can tell,
    The House of Peers, throughout the war,
    Did nothing in particular,
    And did it very well:
    Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)