Quote by Samuel Johnson
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. – Samuel Johnson

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Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. – Samuel Johnson

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No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. – Samuel Johnson

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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Truth is what works. – William James

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A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men. – Patrick Kavanagh

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The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you dont tell him the truth. Others wont do it. – Donald Rumsfeld

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