"There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering."

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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Young people are caught up in whatever appears to be the most bizarre. They look for truth and settle for folly. False religions and the occult are clever in reaching seekers who want to experience a rush of any kind."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"The living souls have the breath of life."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"On their deathbed men will speak true, they say."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free."

Barbara Boxer, American Politician

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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist

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"Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember."

David Mamet, American Dramatist

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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

"A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss."

"Young people are caught up in whatever appears to be the most bizarre. They look for truth and settle for folly. False religions and the occult are clever in reaching seekers who want to experience a rush of any kind."

"The living souls have the breath of life."

"On their deathbed men will speak true, they say."

"She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable."

"The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free."

"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

"'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'"

"Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember."

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"Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him."

"A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul."

"The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique."

"When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird."

"A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward."

"Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt."

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"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills."

"Man proposes, woman forecloses."