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Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted. ✨ Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...
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Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted. ✨ Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...

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