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When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.

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    James Whistler about Nature

    To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

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