Literary
BLACKIE
(John Stuart, 1809-1895, Scottish Scholar & Translator of Goethe's Faust)
Fine signature with several words in Greek,
on a card, no place, no date
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Background
The three phrases only make sense separately. The left three words mean speaking the truth in a spirit of love (alluding to NT Eph.4.15.1), the right three words fine things are difficult (a saying attributed to Solon and quoted by Plato and Plutarch among others) and the bottom two farewell forever (the two words never occur in this order, but in the reverse they are found in the NT).
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