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THE ANALYSIS OF BEAUTY
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PERSUING BEAUTY

Mr. WALPOLE:    Why is it that you always seem to know the answer, while I always seem to be just slightly wrong? Am I trying to hard?

Mr. HOGARTH:    The greatest task to learn is to find what you do not seek and to seek only what is just beyond reach. Where would be the joy in hunting, fishing, shooting and other diversions without the frequent turns, difficulties and disappointments that are daily met with in the pursuit? The love of pursuit, merely as pursuit, it’s implanted in our natures and designed no doubt for necessary and useful purposes