Lawrence DurrellI suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
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Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, musician, architect, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. He is noted for the Renaissance paintings of the world's most famous personages—among them The Last Supper and The Mona Lisa—and for his notes and observations on human anatomy.
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