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“Virtue is the adherence in action to the nature of things, and the nature of things makes it prevalent. It consists in a perpetual substitution of being for seeming, and with sublime propriety God is described as saying, I A.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“... only
A figure spun on stirring of the air,
And so, untrue.”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
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