"The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live to the point. All other things--to reign, to hoard, to build--are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages."--Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1588. From the ser

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Mother and Child Gari Melchers

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Lady Macbeth Elisabet Ney

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