"Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts."

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Source : Letter to William Jackson of Exeter; as cited in "The Letters of Thomas Gainsborough", ed. Mary Woodall, 1961, September 14, 1767.

Thomas Gainsborough

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“The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.”
“People in China say: 'If you love your children, send them to New York. If you hate your children, also send them to New York.”
“It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.”
“The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money in the New York money market....The One World Government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank.”

Source : "Franklin Roosevelt, My Exploited Father-in-Law" by Curtis Dall, 1968.
“The most important thing is to just be good at what you do.”
“Nothing has changed since I began. My eye has permitted no change. I am going to keep things like this.”
“Best friends are forever. That's why they're called BFFs.”
“Nothing in the world can replace the modern swimsuit, and it practically has.”

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