Leonardo da Vinci: May it please our great Author that I may demonstrate the nature of man and his customs, in the way I describe his figur

May it please our great Author that I may demonstrate the nature of man and his — Leonardo da Vinci

May it please our great Author that I may demonstrate the nature of man and his customs, in the way I describe his figure.

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Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times. — Leonardo da Vinci
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I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don’t — Anton Chekhov
They will never shoulder a musket again in anger, and if Grant is wise, he will — Abraham Lincoln
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Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arr — Walt Whitman