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Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advanta

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives… by make-believe. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938

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Anyone who doesnt take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. – Albert Einstein

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Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year. – Horatio Nelson

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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy. – Tertullian

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