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  • All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.

    Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone, Thomas Gray (1798). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight ... Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting”, p.88