We meet people every day whose bodies are evidently those of men and women long dead, but whose appearance we know through their portraits. (Samuel Butler (novelist))

We meet people every day whose bodies are evidently those of men and women long dead, but whose appearance we know through their portraits.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

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