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Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. in this great balance of utility, the spiritual service of art has no weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it vanishes from the noisy vanity fair of our time.
-Friedrich Schiller
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Utility Is The Great Idol Of The

Friedrich Schiller
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. in this great balance of utility, the spiritual service of art has no weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it vanishes from the noisy vanity fair of our time.
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