Sidney Richard Percy (1821-1886) was an English landscape painter during the Victorian era, and a member of the Williams family of painters.
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““But ah,” Desire still cries, “give me some food.””
—Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)
“I’m beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of death among Americans. What you don’t know can indeed hurt you, and so those who can neither read nor write lead miserable lives, like Richard Wright’s character, Bigger Thomas, born dead with no past or future.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)