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Beauty itself doth of itself persuade / The eyes of men without an orator.
-Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

All art is but imitation of nature.
Seneca

I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I
believe they are correct. Now, I\'m not going to deny that you don\'t now
and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.
Ronald Reagan

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one
end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan