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There should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric, and pure invention is but the talent of a deceiver.
There should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric, and pure invention is but the talent of a deceiver.
Approximate author period: c. 1806 AD · industrial
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- Lord Byron
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- Approximate author period: c. 1806 AD · industrial
author lifetime midpoint (1788–1824)
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
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