“Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.”
— Herman Melville
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“Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.”
— Emily Dickinson
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“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”
— Samuel Johnson
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“Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.”
— Veronica Franco
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“A new untruth is better than an old truth.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.”
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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“The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.”
— Jorge Luis Borges
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“The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.”
— Henry Miller
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“It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
— Thomas Aquinas
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“Light is the symbol of truth.”
— James Russell Lowell
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