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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. ↗

— Daniel Webster

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No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish. ↗

— David Hume

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Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

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Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. ↗

— Hesiod

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We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. ↗

— William James

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