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.
You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
—Henrik Ibsen, 1882