Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) American magazine writer, editor, and publisher
The Month of June.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)
“One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.”
1962, quoted in Andriessen and Schoenberger, The Apollonian Clockwork (1989). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1960s
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