"A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood."
-William Shenstone
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"Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.“
-William Shenstone
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