"Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie."
-Horace Walpole
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"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.“
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"By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense."
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"Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations."
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"Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony."
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"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."
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"Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it."
-Terry Wogan
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"Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality."
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"Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them."
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"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour."
-Theodore Gericault
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"Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination."
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"One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?"
-Francis Cabot Lowell
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