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To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.

Samuel Johnson
Memories, Reality, Attention
Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper”, p.309
To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.