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Quote by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other. – Ivy Compton-Burnett

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The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. – Daniel Webster

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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. – Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

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The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons. – Bhagavad Gita

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