"I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours."
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"The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words."
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"Tell the truth, because sooner or later the public will find out anyway. And if the public doesn't like what you are doing, change your policies and bring them into line with what people want."
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"Wisdom is found only in truth."
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"When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated."
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"The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth."
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"I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth."
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"It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans."
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"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
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"But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get."
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"Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed."
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"As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accursed An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed."
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"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."
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"Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man."
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"For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place."
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"Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched."
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"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."
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"Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor."
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"In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain."
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"We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth.""
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