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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are con

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. – Charles Lamb

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For Gods sake (I never was more serious) dont make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print… substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question. – Charles Lamb

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Reputation
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Charles Lamb
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment. – Charles Lamb

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Mans mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth. – Desiderius Erasmus

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I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Truth

I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender. – Rodney Dangerfield

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Truth

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. – Samuel Butler

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Smile! It increases your face value. – Robert Harling, Steel Magnolias

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. – Robert Frost

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For industry to settle in a country, you first need electricity for electricity, you need some trained workers for trained workers, you need some schools for schools you need some money for money, you need some industry. – Evan Davis

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