"The painting is almost the natural man: For since dishonour traffics with man's nature, He is but outside; pencill'd figures are Ev'n such as they give out."
— Painting

January 1, 1970

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William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens (date uncertain, published 1623), Act I, scene 1, line 157. In Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 576-77.