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Quotes from Children of the Old Masters (Italian School) — Alice Meynell

1847–1922 England

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Children appeal to us by a variant of the quality of pathos.

Children of the Old Masters (Italian School) (1903)

[A]n English wit has well said that affectation displeases us because it has not too much, but too little, art.

Children of the Old Masters (Italian School) (1903)

It is not extravagance, it is not excitement, it is not excess, or dizziness, or delirium, that chastises habitual pleasure in art, but only dullness.[…] One of the Latin races, having the dullness and keeping wit enough to name it, has the word for it—banalité.

Children of the Old Masters (Italian School) (1903)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alice Meynell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.