Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets abov

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. – Miguel de Cervantes

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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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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. – Ludwig Borne

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I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth. – Alphonse de Lamartine, “Marseillaise of Peace,” 1841

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Truth is a naked and open daylight – Francis Bacon

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