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“The very pink of perfection.”

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Oliver Goldsmith was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet, and physician. He is best known for his novel 'The Vicar of Wakefield' and his plays 'She Stoops to Conquer' and 'The Good-Natur'd Man'. Goldsmith's works are characterized by their wit, humor, and moral depth. more

“But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained, as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is [to be] avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination.”

“What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June?”

Stars Cities Air Wind Equal Ordinary Ideals Perfection Hot Everyday Clouds Floating June Arizona Platonic Hot Days Tubas

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.”

Trying Humanity Goes On Survival Perfection

Author:Dora Russell

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