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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
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...
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim read more
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. -Boris Pasternak.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you read more
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage
ground of Truth.
But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage
ground of Truth.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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.
... 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.
