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The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye
will do. He was a read more
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye
will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in
the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a
lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of
it.
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she read more
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. -H.L. Mencken.
I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
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.
