Tact

George du Maurier

Wood engraving

Punch (23 August 1879)

Admiring friend.— “What, another picture! Why, that's the Second you've finished this Week!”

Pictor.— “The third, my boy, the third!”

Admiring friend (wishing to be pleasant).— “Ah, wonderful That's what I always say when I hear people abuse your Pictures. ‘They may be bad,’ I always say; ‘But look at the lot of them he turns out!”

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