| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 15681 |
| QUOTATION: | The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Salvador Dali (19041989), Spanish painter. Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp, preface, ed. Pierre Cabanne (1968, trans. 1971). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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