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Alexander Pope Quotes: And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
         

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.


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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
         



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