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Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.
-Shakespeare, As You Like ItTeaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable
gift and not as a hard duty. -- Albert Einstein

Beauty is a primeval phenomenen, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is
visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature itself. -Goethe, April 18,
1827

This woman\'s work is exceptional. Too bad she\'s not a man.
Edouard Manet, commenting on the work of Berthe Morisot