It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal. - Eric Gill

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The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

Eric Gill

It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal.

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The shapes of letters do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences. No one can say that the O’s roundness appeals to us only because it is like that of an apple or of a girl’s breast or of the full moon. Letters are things, not pictures of things.

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The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.

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Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- like the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a living -- not something added, like sugar on a pill.

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There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.

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Letters are things, not pictures of things.

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A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. "People say you are a genius. Are you?" he asked. "You might say so. " said the Master, none too modestly. "And what makes one a genius?" "The ability to recognize. " "Recognize what?" "The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.

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