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There are no greater forgers in the universe, than cunning mannerists. Their whole lives are false. The loveliest of human attributes, the beautiful, the winning virtue of sincerity, abides not with them. They have abjured the profession of humanity.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman The Optimist (1850)

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We discern beyond the smile and the honeyed word, and are sickened at the self-created hollowness of a human heart.

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The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

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For Truth makes holy Love's illusive dreams,
And their best promise constantly redeems.

Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.

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I often muse upon the life of the true artist until it redeems to my mind, the more prosaic aspects of human existence.

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