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Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing read more
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. -Winston Churchill.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
Think truly, and thy thoughts
Shall the world's famine feed.
Speak truly, and each word of thine
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Think truly, and thy thoughts
Shall the world's famine feed.
Speak truly, and each word of thine
Shall be a fruitful seed.
Live truly, and thy life shall be
A great and noble creed.
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.
A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.
A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.
It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid read more
It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition to stand up for it.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.