Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights... A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

Francis Bacon
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William Shakespeare expressed that truth is a naked and open daylight that does not show the masques and mummeries of the world. It reveals the true nature of things as they are. In other words, it shines a light on the darkness.

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