“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion…”
— RWE, Self Reliance
To wit: we’d be most content to take ourselves; if we knew what the hell we are supposed to be!
A Classicist Writes... 
Why do the cats in these old paintings always look like humans and not cats? Didn’t they know how to paint cats????
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The bane of our lives, Jerry 😂
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