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I often wish . . . that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Source: Attributed; in On Having Known a Poet, The Atlantic Monthly, p. 712, May 1906.
-- Bliss Carman, (Apr 15 1861-1929), Canadian poet, author; His volumes of popular verse included Sappho, 1902 and Songs from Vagabondia, 1894.

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