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When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.

Charles Churchill

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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
Poet
Writer
City of Westminster
Lying
Frown
Eye
Clouded
Truth
Pleasing
Must
Rises
Believe
Solemn
Men
Proof
Love
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Fiction

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