"A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments."
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George Stillman Hillard Six Months in Italy (1853), ch. 5.
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Nicholas Hilliard
Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1547 – January 7 1619) was the first true english born painter of English miniatures .
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