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• The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. -- Joshua Reynold
• The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
  -- Thomas Babington Macaulay...
• A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. -- Joshua Reynold
• A man's character is his fate. Heraclitu
• Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labor.
  It argues, indeed, no small strength of mind to persevere in the habits of industry, without the pleasure of perceiving those advantages which, like the hands of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation....
• It is but poor eloquence, which only shows that the orator can talk. -- Sir Joshua Reynold
• Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
  -- Joshua Reynold...
• The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
  -- Joshua Reynold...
• If you have great talents, industry will improve them
  if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. -- Joshua Reynold...