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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.
Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.
...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Truth is often attended with danger.
[Lat., Pericula veritati saepe contigua.]
Truth is often attended with danger.
[Lat., Pericula veritati saepe contigua.]
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either...
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either...
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde.