Thomas Hardy quote — “My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskil…”

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My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.

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