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Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem;
There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground
But holds some joy of silence or of sound,
Some sprite begotten of a summer dream.

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

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None are so easily taken in as the "knowing ones."

Forewarned, forearmed, is sheer nonsense.

Man will take anything you like, except warning.

The course of truth never yet ran smooth.

As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not."

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