Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. -Sargent, John Singer
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. -Sargent, John Singer
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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood. -Hesiod
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Every crowd has a silver lining. -Barnum, P.T.
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Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person. -Virgil
Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person. -Virgil
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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! -Paglia, Camille
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved. -Iris Murdoch
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So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come. -Seneca
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Lucian
The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity. Lucian quotes