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Benjamin Franklin1 quote
What you would seem to be, be really. — Benjamin Franklin · 1744Francis Bacon1 quote
Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others. — Francis Bacon · 1625Nathaniel Hawthorne1 quote
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. — Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850William Shakespeare1 quote
To show an unfelt sorrow is an office
Which the false man does easy. — William Shakespeare · 1616