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and, if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
- Desiderius Erasmus
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Illustration of a burning book is Jules Girardet, entitled "The End of the Diary," which accompanied Éduard Rod's story "M. Gindre's Ideal" in the magazine Art and Letters: An Illustrated Review, Volume 4, No. 3 (December 1888), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. (also London: Boussod, Valadon & Co. and Paris/The Hague/Berlin: Boussod, Valadon & Co, Succ. of Goupil & Co.)
Portrait of Erasmus by Holbein (linked from his name in the epigraph) from Hans Holbein le jeune: L'œuvre du maitre. Paris: Librairie Hachette & Cie., 1912.
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