"Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right."

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It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read.

— Madame de Stael