"Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance."
— Truth

January 1, 1970

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711), Vol. 1, p. 8; "A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm".