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Quote by Samuel Johnson
I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the a

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world. – Samuel Johnson

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I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow. – Samuel Johnson

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Mathematics
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Samuel Johnson
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. – Samuel Johnson

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great
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Samuel Johnson
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Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast. – Samuel Johnson

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

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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything. – Oscar Wilde

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Portraits

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on. – Anthony Powell

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Portraits

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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Love, the quest marriage, the conquest divorce, the inquest. – Helen Rowland

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I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that. – Oscar Wilde

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He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven. – Thomas Fuller

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Ive sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture. – Danny Boyle

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