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“Though painting borrows help indeed from colours... it has nothing more wide of its real aim or more remote from its intention than to make a show of colours... to raise a separate and flattering pleasure to the sense.”

Quote by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, was a prominent British politician. He served as a Conservative MP from 1970 to 1983 and as the Foreign Secretary from 1983 to 1985. His political career is marked by his advocacy for European integration and human rights. more

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