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  • If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius; and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.

    Walter Savage Landor (1829). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.222