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The word excellency, in art, taste, and old titles.

The oldest sense of excellency shows up here as artistic quality, the intensity that makes lesser art fade next to it. A related line argues true excellency outlasts whatever fashionable humor first recommended a thing.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Nov 07, 2020

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.

Quotes by Mary Astell

Capable
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Nov 07, 2020

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Heart
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Nov 07, 2020

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Quotes by Henry Fielding

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I have just returned from Arenas and feel very tired. His Excellency loaded me with a thousand honours; I have painted his portrait and that of his wife and boy and girl with unexpected success, for other artists had been there previously and not been successful.

Quotes by Francisco Goya

Crisis
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Nov 07, 2020

I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside.

Quotes by Alberto Fujimori

There's also a literal title in the mix - a painter writing home about His Excellency and a portrait of his wife and boy. Taken together, the quotes show a word capable of meaning both a virtue and a rank.

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