• Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

  Oliver Goldsmith
  Irish writer and poet 1728-1774
  

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1. destructive
2. consummate
3. pictures
4. nature
5. humans
6. never

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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! by : Oliver Goldsmith

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