“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

—  Mark Twain , book A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Ch. 43 http://www.literature.org/authors/twain-mark/connecticut/chapter-43.html
Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)

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