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  • May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in perspective.

    - Paul Ce  zanne
      Letter to EŁ   mile Bernard,15  Apr.

  • The more contracted that power is, the more easily it is destroyed. A country governed bya despot is an inverted cone.

    - Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
      Remark,14  Apr. Quoted in  James Boswell  The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.

  • Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone

    - RobertTraill Spence,Jr Lowell
      'Waking Early Sunday Morning'.

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