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(It is not enough for a work’s subject to be good; the manner of treating it must be good as well.) Beside a lacemaker lived a maker of gold braid. “Neighbor, who would ever have believed,” he said to her, “that three yards of your lace 5 would fetch more doubloons than ten of my double-sided gold braid!” “You should not marvel,” she replied to her neighbor, “that my wares are worth so much more than yours, though you work in gold and I in linen, 10 for artistry is worth more than the material.” Let those who scorn style and claim to care for substance alone consider this: if thread 15 can command a higher price than precious metal, elegance likewise gives substance its chief worth.