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The Roman Nobility are not fond of strangers, and you will observe that extreme hospitality is only found where visitors are scarce.

— Peter Beckford

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The colour I think of little moment; and am of opinion with our friend Foote, respecting his negro friend, that a good dog, like a good candidate, cannot be of a bad colour.

Thoughts upon Hare and Fox Hunting (1781)

Though music is the chief excellence of the Neapolitans, Naples has produced some good Painters. Luca Giordano, and Salvator Rosa, were both of them born here : the latter, to judge by a ridiculous anecdote that is told of him, was a man of wit, as well as a painter.

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