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Samuel Butler (novelist) - Painters should remember...

Painters should remember that the eye, as a general rule, is a good, simple, credulous organ - very ready to take things on trust if it be told them with any confidence of assertion. (Samuel Butler (novelist))

Painters should remember that the eye, as a general rule, is a good, simple, credulous organ - very ready to take things on trust if it be told them with any confidence of assertion.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

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