Quotation by

William Allan

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

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The speaker is telling his father that even though a lot of money has been spent on teaching him Latin, he has decided to pursue painting instead. This shows a clear choice to follow his passion rather than the expected path of classical education.

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