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I hate painting, and poetry too! Neither the one nor the other ever did any good.

— George II of Great Britain John Ireland Hogarth Illustrated (1791)

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Later sources usually quote this as "I hate all bainters and boets!", or as "Damn the bainters and the boets too!" The saying is often misattributed to George I.

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