Lewis H. Lapham - I never can pass by the Metr...

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

Lewis H. Lapham

American Editor

Born: Jan 8, 1935

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Art, Wealth, Living, Thinking, Never, New, Without, Pass, Metropolitan, York, New York, Cemetery, Gallery, Portraits, Museum

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