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S.A. Bent, comp.  Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men.  1887.
 
Thomas Gainsborough
 
        [An English landscape and portrait painter; born at Sudbury, 1727; settled in London, 1775; was one of the first members of the Royal Academy; “the greatest colorist since Rubens,” said Ruskin of him; died in London, August, 1788.]
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We are all going to heaven, and Vandyke is of the company.
          His last words.
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