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Quote by David Hume
Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natu

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. – David Hume

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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. – David Hume

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There is no god higher than truth. – Mahatma Gandhi

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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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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 has rough flavours if we bite it through. – George Eliot

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