Artifice Quotes
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I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.
William Shirley
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The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible.
William Blake
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Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.
Emily Dickinson
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Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend his pride, are oftentimes not to a king divulged.
Vittorio Alfieri
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I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.
Carrie Brownstein
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Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.
Charles L. Grant
