The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
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Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
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Poetry is the deification of reality.
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