{"id":5448,"date":"2018-09-07T08:56:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T15:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=5448"},"modified":"2018-09-07T08:57:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T15:57:22","slug":"illusion-or-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/illusion-or-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Illusion or Truth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5452\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2789.jpg\" alt=\"The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton\" width=\"620\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2789.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2789-120x81.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2789-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?&#8221; ~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=The%20House%20of%20Mirth\">The House of Mirth<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Edith%20Wharton&amp;page=1\">Edith Wharton<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; font-size: 75%;\">Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/LhlxYMfnTF0?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vincent Burkhead<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/search\/photos\/background?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?&#8221;<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[354,797,562,548],"class_list":["post-5448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quote-photos","tag-edith-wharton","tag-ideas-quotes","tag-the-house-of-mirth","tag-truth-quotes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?&quot;\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"LitQuotes\"\/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/illusion-or-truth\/\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 4.9.8\" \/>\n\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"aioseo-schema\">\n\t\t\t{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.litquotes.com\\\/blog\\\/2018\\\/09\\\/illusion-or-truth\\\/#article\",\"name\":\"Illusion or Truth? 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