Quotes with artifices

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• All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

  ― Adelbert von Chamisso
  German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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• The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

  ― George Santayana
  Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• infatuated
• artificial
• artifices
• movement
• depicts
• history

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