I know dock leaves pretty well, but I should not attempt to introduce them into a picture without having them before me.

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  Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her I look for fame.

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  Painting is but another word for feeling.

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  Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.

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  Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

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  They that know no evil will suspect none.

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  He threatens many that hath injured one.

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