"The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental."

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The exercise of criticism always destroys for a time our sensibility to beauty by leading us to regard the work in relation to certain laws of construction. The eye turns from the charms of nature to fix itself upon the servile dexterity of art.

— Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet