Things are seldom what they seem,
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, opening lines to the famous duet between Buttercup and the Captain in the “Gilbert and Sullivan” operetta H.M.S. Pinafore (1878; Sir Arthur Sullivan, composer).
Skim milk masquerades as cream.
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