"Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.“


-Henri Frederic Amiel

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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

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