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The difference between the first and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition -- it is a matter of a hair, a shade, an inward quiver of some kind -- yet what miles away in the point of preciousness!

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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