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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth read more
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
If it is not true it is very well invented.
[It., Se non e vero, e molto ben trovato.]
If it is not true it is very well invented.
[It., Se non e vero, e molto ben trovato.]
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.
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of read more
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world
Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her read more
Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below.
Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below.
