Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1600. National Portrait Gallery, London.
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“A horrid-looking wretch he is, sooty and scoundrelly in aspect, a cross between the nutmeg dealer, the horse swapper, and the night man,” declared a Stephen Douglas–leaning newspaper of Abraham Lincoln during the presidential race of 1860.
O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.
—Horace, c. 8 BC
