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• Youth, though it may lack knowledge, is certainly not devoid of intelligence; it sees through shams with sharp and terrible eyes. — H. L. Mencken
• The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that… — Mark Twain
• There is only truth to be found - no lies, no shams, no illusions, no hypocrisy. Just a truthful place, where all… — Eustace Conway
• The Post-Dispatch will serve no party but the people; be no organ of Republicanism, but the organ of truth; will follow no… — Joseph Pulitzer
• I don't want to pass because I can't stand insincerities and shams. I am just as much Negro as any of the… — Fredi Washington
• Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies. — Miguel de Cervantes
• I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great… — Lucian
• In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's… — Rafael Sabatini
• When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care… — Mark Twain
• Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow… — Henry David Thoreau
• Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating — real in a generation of triflers — true amongst… — William Morley Punshon
• Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. — Aldous Huxley

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