Quote by Doris Lessing
It is terrible to destroy a persons picture of himself in the inte

It is terrible to destroy a persons picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. – Doris Lessing

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You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I cant say I do like it very much. – Doris Lessing

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Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. – Herman Melville

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Better suffer for the truth than prosper in a falsehood. – Danish proverb

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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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I make one pledge above all others – to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command. – George McGovern

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