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Quote by George Eliot
Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would

Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change –only to give stability to one beautiful moment. – George Eliot

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When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. – George Eliot

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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. – George Eliot

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. – George Eliot

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Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it. – Oliver Cromwell

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When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait. – Pablo Picasso

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He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: theres another dog. – Rainer Maria Rilke

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There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. – Charles Dickens

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