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"Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis."
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"The root system supports the branches."
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"The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this."
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"The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it."
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"By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth."
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"It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling."
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"Man can embody truth but he cannot know it."
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"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken."
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"The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage."
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"Truth has no duality."
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"Too much truth is uncouth."
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"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."
Change
"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."
Reading
"The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him."
Existence
"Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune."
Friendship
"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."
Thought
"Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost."
Honor
"It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are."
Relationship
"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible."
Time
"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."
Talent
"The word of man is the most durable of all material."
Man
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