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"It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because…"
"A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century."
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