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| False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss. |
| Alexander Pope |
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| Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. |
| Mark Twain |
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| For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right |
| William Cowper |
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| For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen. |
| John Dryden |
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| For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. |
| Lord Byron |
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| Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it. |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight is said to be the only truth |
| Herman Melville |
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| From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. |
| Tom Stoppard |
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| He that has truth in his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue |
| John Ruskin |
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| He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value. |
| Friedrich Nietzsche |
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| I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. |
| Harry S Truman |
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| I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. |
| Harry S Truman |
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| I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth. |
| Henry David Thoreau |
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| I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older |
| Michel de Montaigne |
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