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The truth--a hideous spectacle! Conrad Aiken
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Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself. Sydney J. Harris
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. Thomas Jefferson
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Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. John Stuart Mill
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