"For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?"
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"Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays."
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"The truth is an anagram of an anagram."
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"Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth."
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"She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless."
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"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well."
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"There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth."
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"Convert life into truth."
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"Truth is the summit of being."
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"No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it."
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"Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.""
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"A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text."
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"The greatest homage to truth is to use it."
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"My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like - but truer than the literal truth."
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"In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency."
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"This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed."
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"Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages."
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"Veiling truth in mystery."
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"The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one that looks as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more stairways than storeys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are surely too small for a full-sized human to enter. The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."
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