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Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth."

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"There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth."

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"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."

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"A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth."

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"The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time."

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"I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?"

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"Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us."

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"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

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"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."

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"To forsake wisdom is to seek folly, to seek folly is to seek evil, to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil, and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death."

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"We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease."

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"It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember as the number of things I can remember that aren't so."

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"Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize."
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"How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism."
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