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johnjo | 12:33 Mon 19th Feb 2001 | Phrases & Sayings
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Oliver Cromwell is said to have said to his court painter: 'I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all, but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts and everything you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.' From the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

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