"If they could forget for a moment the correggiosity of Correggio and the learned babble of the sale-room and varnishing Auctioneer."
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January 1, 1970

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Thomas Carlyle, Frederick the Great, Book IV, Chapter III. In Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 576-77.