Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
-- Gustave Flaubert
-- Gustave Flaubert
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... - On Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow,
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-- Lord Byron (1788-1824)
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, Stanza... - Things sweet to the taste, prove in digestion sour.
William...
