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Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so

Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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