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Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. Henri Matisse		Thursday May 21, 2026
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About Sir Richard Francis Burton

	Sir Richard Francis Burton
	(1821-1890) British explorer & Orientalist, of English family settled in Ireland.

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When doctors differ who decides amid the milliard-headed throng?

Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause: He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

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