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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch, nay,

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch, nay, you may kick it all about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Professor at the Breakfast Table

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