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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth
Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction
Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation
I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times
Half a truth is often a great lie
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't
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