Quote by Herman Melville
Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by

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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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation. – Herman Melville

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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. – Herman Melville

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Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does. – Helen Hayes

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I can prove anything by statistics except the truth. – George Canning

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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty. – Tacitus

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

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