Gilbert Osmond

Beauty is Power

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No other country compares to the beauty.

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Ariel and I collect bibelots. But mine are better. 

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I went to the Didone abbandonata by Metastasio last week. I cant stop humming the music! 

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“Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.”  ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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Just bought this bumper sticker for my carriage. So true isn't it?

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Home video. We always got along..... love ya sis <3

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My kid >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> your kid.

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Hey Isabel. Look at my art! I've got some Raphaels, Rubens, Caravaggios, and Botticellis. JK this is the Pitti Palace, but I've been told my art collection is better anyway.

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"Oh! certainly," cried his faithful assistant, "no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half deserved." "All this she must possess," added Darcy, "and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading."

- Pride and Prejuidice

Ok yes. But don't forget beautiful and rich as well Mr. Darcy. 

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MENTRE l’ aura amorosa e ’l mio bel lume fean vago il giorno e l’ aer chiaro e puro, con largo volo, per cammin securo cercai d’ alzarmi anch’ io con queste piume. 133 La luce sparve e ’l mio primo costume lasciar convenne: or più non m’ assicuro chè ’l sentier intricato e ’l cielo oscuro non ho chi m’ apra e non ho chi m’ allume. Spento è il vigor che pria sostenne l’ ale; onde al desio che la speranza atterga, convien che senza guida indarno s’ erga. Rimane il nome in me, perchè ’l mortale dolor vincendo vivo; e il pensier sale privo d’ affetto ove il mio Sole alberga.

Vittoria Colonna

This is my favorite sonnet by Vittoria Colonna. Of course, it is in Italian because I am dope and talk like a native. 

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Just finished reading Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and I am so inspired by the Duke and the King! Did this quick sketch with my eyes closed. 

“Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.”  ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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Ok this is pretty cute. But the hierarchy here is all wrong. The father shouldn't take orders from his kid. The most attractive trait in a daughter is obedience.