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" Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you. "
You
Collecting
Sort
" College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life. "
Reading
You
Life
" In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest other collectors and persuade them to come in with him, and that hunch proved to be right. "
Him
Right
Way
" It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in usefulness and importance to artists, scholars and the general public. "
Living
Hope
Growing
" Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience. "
Just
Original
World
" Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas. "
Oil
Than
Canvas
" There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece. "
Intellectual
Unique
Emotional
" When you give away large sums of money, you can cause as much damage as you may do good. "
Away
Give
You
" Within 18 months of my parents' marriage in 1900, my mother fell in love with an Englishman who would have described himself as a gentleman but who was, in fact, nothing more than a devious adventurer. "
Nothing
Parents
Love
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