#artifice

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

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I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them. ↗

— William Shirley

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