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Alain de Botton on Truth

“Just be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give some people.”

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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“When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.”

Mark Twain

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“Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.”

Cervantes

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“Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ Miguel de Cerv...”

Aesop

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“After all is said and done, more is said than done.”

Patrick Rothfuss

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“Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense.”

Malcolm X

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“You can't have capitalism without racism.”

Agatha Christie

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“I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.”

Terry Pratchett

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“When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present.”

Napoleon

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“All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.”

Thomas Jefferson

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“It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.”

Barbara Kingsolver

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“The truth needs so little rehearsal.”

Tacitus

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“Greater things are believed of those who are absent.”

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