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Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtaken by it.
James Northcote
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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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Born:
October 22, 1746
Died:
July 13, 1831
(aged 84)
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James Northcote was an English painter.
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