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Truth...is the only virgin in this vast universe whom one likes to see a little clothed.

— Stanislas de Boufflers

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Morality has need, that it may be well received, of the mask of fable and the charm of poetry; truth pleases less when it is naked; and is the only virgin in this vast universe whom one likes to see a little clothed.

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