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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.
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.
Approximate author period: c. 1640 AD · renaissance
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- Samuel Butler
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- Approximate author period: c. 1640 AD · renaissance
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