Mark Twain quote about eyes from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - you can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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you can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
 Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889). copy citation

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“This sound thickened, and approached—from toward the north. Presently, I heard it at my own level—the ridge-top of the opposite embankment, a hundred feet or more away. Then I seemed to see a row of black dots appear along that ridge—human heads? I couldn't tell; it mightn't be anything at all; you can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. However, the question was soon settled. I heard that metallic noise descending into the great ditch. It augmented fast, it spread all along, and it unmistakably furnished me this fact: an armed host was taking up its quarters in the ditch.” source

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