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" The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances. "

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" There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near. "

" As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. "

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" The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things. "

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" I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly. "

" Our life is made by the death of others. "

" Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard. "

" The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. "

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" There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see. "

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" It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips. "

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