Just Too High Strung

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Knight, Death and the Devil by Albrecht Durer

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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

Sinclair Lewis

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The Skeleton Painter by James Ensor

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Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

Herman Melville

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Giant Squid Attack by N.C. Wyeth

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The Wounded Cavalier by William Shakespeare Burton

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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Francis Bacon

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When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box.

Italian Proverb

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The more you look at this picture, the more anxious it becomes.

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The Rescue by I.K Aivazovsky

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The Knight At The Crossroads by V. M. Vasnetsov

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Herbert James Draper

The Gates of Dawn

c.1900

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What a majestic beast.

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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (1885-1892) ukiyo-e series, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (click through for descriptions)

more in this series

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The one of the wolf (?) is my favorite, I think.

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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey

Graham Greene

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The Evolution of the Foot Soldier

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Life is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So you're stuck with this undefinable whipped mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while there's a peanut butter cup or an English toffee. But they're gone too fast and the taste is... fleeting. So, you end up with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts. And if you're desperate enough to eat those, all you got left is an empty box filled with useless brown paper wrappers.

C.G.B. Spender