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Stephen Leacock

"A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better."

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"A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better."

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Donna Grant

"Macy: "In Truth, I said, "there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.Wes: "How do you win? he askedMacy: "That, I said, "is such a boy question."

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Donna Grant

"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

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"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."

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"Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say."

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"Sometimes dead is better."

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"A false potential can dress itself up as attractive ideas."

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"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."

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"Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion."

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Donna Grant

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

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"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true."

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