• Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman 1561-1626
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1. secondary
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3. please
4. memory

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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. by : Francis Bacon

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