How many, once lauded in song, are given over to the forgotten; and how many who sung their praises are clean gone long ago! Book VII
To give the devil his due. Don Quixote
The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for a living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. Man and Superman
"Study the past if you would define the future." The Analects of Confucius
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