“How many things there are in this world which do not seem to be, and how many which seem to be and are not.”

— Alessandro Pepoli

In questo mondo, quante cose sonc e non sembrano! e quante poi sembrano e non sono!
La Scomessa, Act I., Sc. III. — (Il Marchese.). Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 325.

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