“There is a smile of love,
And there is a smile of deceit,
And there is a smile of smiles
In which these two smiles meet.”

—  William Blake

The Smile, st. 1
1800s, Poems from the Pickering Manuscript (c. 1805)

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English Romantic poet and artist 1757–1827

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