"The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil."

-- E. J. Hughes

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“What's the number-one thing people do on the Web? They read. Words and numbers are the raw material from which the vast majority of webpages are built. If reading is the primary activity on the Web, then readability is a primary function of Web design.”
“Nothing external to you has any power over you.”
“Bare," came her answer in a squeak. "Yes, we'd both have to be bare," he said with a laugh. "Not bare naked," she gasped. "Bear bear. Furry bear. Bear!" -Mortimer and Sam”
“I love this book! There are very few cookbooks published today that add something truly new and distinctive to the literature of food and cooking. Jennifer McLagan's Fat is a smart, thoughtful book that ultimately asks us to understand our food better.”
“Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil. When one does not profess Jesus Christ, one professes the worldliness of the devil.”
“Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.”
“Letting Go: A Little Bit at a Time is filled with big ideas that just might change your life. Wise, witty, and important.”
“Death has shaken out the sands of thy glass.”

Source : John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, Royal Robbins (1842). “The Poems of John G. C. Brainard: A New and Authentic Collection, with an Original Memoir of His Life”, p.70

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