The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. M. Dent, 1925 |
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... Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity ; so they have betaken themselves to errour . Truth , Sir , is a cow which will yield such people no more milk , and so they are gone to milk the bull . If I could have allowed ...
... Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity ; so they have betaken themselves to errour . Truth , Sir , is a cow which will yield such people no more milk , and so they are gone to milk the bull . If I could have allowed ...
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... truth with safety . " JOHNSON . " Why , Sir , in the first place , he who tells a hundred lies has disarmed the force of his lies . But besides ; a man had rather have a hundred lies told of him , than one truth which he does not wish ...
... truth with safety . " JOHNSON . " Why , Sir , in the first place , he who tells a hundred lies has disarmed the force of his lies . But besides ; a man had rather have a hundred lies told of him , than one truth which he does not wish ...
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... truth : ' Physical truth is , when you tell a thing as it actually is . Moral truth is , when you tell a thing sincerely and precisely as it appears to you . I say such a one walked across the street ; if he really did so , I told a ...
... truth : ' Physical truth is , when you tell a thing as it actually is . Moral truth is , when you tell a thing sincerely and precisely as it appears to you . I say such a one walked across the street ; if he really did so , I told a ...
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