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Quote by George Santayana
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those w

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. – George Santayana

Other quotes by George Santayana

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of ones life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. – George Santayana

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots. – George Santayana

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. – Harry S. Truman

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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. – Virginia Woolf

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In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted. – Michael Musto

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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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