“404. One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“One hundred artists introduce us to one hundred worlds.”
Source: Posthumous quotes, Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, (1983), p. 136 : in Artists Club, January 8, 1952
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