"A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well."
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, as per Mackay's The Harvest of a Quiet Eye, A Selection of Scientific Quotations (1977), p. 34.
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Oliver Herford
Oliver Herford (December 3, 1863 – July 5, 1935) was an American humorous poet and illustrator.
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