Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.

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Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.

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David Murray is a great businessman but knows nothing about football. If he did, he'd have sacked McLeish long ago.

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The college undergraduate is a lot of things - many of them as familiar, predictable and responsible as the bounce of a basketball, and others as startling (and occasionally disastrous) as the bounce of a football.

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There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.

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Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

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