"Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it."

Fact, Facts, Mystery, Secrecy, Suspicion

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"Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it."

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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."

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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

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Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

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"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."

George Eliot, British Author

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