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Eyes of the World

2020-11-06 · 1,960 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

Eyes of the World — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "It has been uniformly laid down in this Court, as far back as we can remember, that good faith is the basis of all merc
Eyes of the World — pen and ink drawing

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"It has been uniformly laid down in this Court, as far back as we can remember, that good faith is the basis of all mercantile transactions." – Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet, in Salomons v. Nissen (1788), 2 T. R. 681.

"Pythagoras said that this world was like a stage, Whereon many play their parts; the lookers-on the sage Philosophers are, saith he, whose part is to learn The manners of all nations, and the good from the bad to discern." – Richard Edwards, "Damon and Pythias"

This outer world is but the pictured scroll Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book, Whereon who rightly look May spell the splendors with their mortal eyes, And steer to Paradise. – Alfred…

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