Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
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Quotations by Francis Bacon
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. Francis Bacon
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“This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action – I will write it out.”