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Walter Pater Quotes
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
Walter Pater

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Date of Birth:
August 4, 1839
Date of Death:
July 30, 1894
Nationality:
English
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