"She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?"
"Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?"
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Source: Histoire de la Peinture en Italie, Chapter XCI, p. 209 (Ed. 1854), as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 787-90, 1922.
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