Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature."
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Counterfeit
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Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"You may imitate, but never counterfeit."
Bill Johnson
Athlete
"A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit."
Thomas Aquinas
Philosopher, Theologian
"Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life."
Homer
Poet
"True friends appear less moved than counterfeit."
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"The counterfeit trinity is me, myself, and I."
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"The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit."
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"It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not."
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"Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love."
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"When you're at peace, there's no counterfeit freedom."
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"Downy sleep, death's counterfeit."
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"The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it."
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"Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death"
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