Epitaph
Philip Thicknesse wrote in The Gentleman's Magazine in 1785:
… one of the most ingenious men that ever lived, and one of the best that ever died … Perhaps of all the mechanical geniuses this or any nation has produced. Mr Gainsborough was the first.
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“The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)