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“The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for that, you must acquire facility, furnish one's memory to the point of infinitude, and make numerous drawings after the old masters.”

Wells Ideas Wish Memories Answers Masters Models Drawing Impression Painter Acquire Facility

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears a voice within it tell: Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well. 'Tis all perhaps which man acquires, But 'tis not what our youth desires.”

Ifs Men Wells Dream Desire Sides Voice Sleep Youth Grateful Calm Bliss Acquire Crowns Marble Youth Life

Book:New poems

Source: New poems

“So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.”

Wells Important Might College Important Things Acquire Bullshit Meter

Book:College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be

Source: College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be

“I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, "Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.”

Men Years Wells Said Book Remember Young Tasks Young Man Gentleman Acquire Oxford Plies

Book:The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides