Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1532 |
| AUTHOR: | Henry Leavitt Ellsworth (1791–1858) |
| QUOTATION: | The advancement of the arts from year to year taxes our credulity, and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end. |
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| SUBJECTS: | Progress |