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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first

No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment. – Thomas Carlyle

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