Samuel Butler (novelist) Quote

We meet people every day whose bodies are evidently those of men and women long dead, but whose appearance we know through their portraits.


Ramblings In Cheapside (1890)


We meet people every day whose bodies are evidently those of men and women long dead, but whose appearance we know through their portraits.

We meet people every day whose bodies are evidently those of men and women long dead, but whose appearance we know through their portraits.

We meet people every day whose bodies are evidently those of men and women long dead, but whose appearance we know through their portraits.

We meet people every day whose bodies are evidently those of men and women long dead, but whose appearance we know through their portraits.