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Margaret Oliphant: As for pictures...

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As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

Source: Clarence Copperhead, in Phoebe, Junior, ch. 26, Chronicles of Carlingford bk. 5, 1876.
-- Margaret Oliphant, (Apr 4 1828-1897), Scottish writer; Her books on English society included Salem Chapel, 1876.


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