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Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can c

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded. – Lord Chesterfield

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Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. – Lord Chesterfield

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Lord Chesterfield
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In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief. – Lord Chesterfield

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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton

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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. – Jim Rohn

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Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Chase after the truth like all hell and youll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails. – Clarence Darrow

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