"The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through our passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes."
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Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (1731-35), Epistle 1, line 31.
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