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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes)
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
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Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), The Little Foxes, 1939
It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
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Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927)
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988), The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
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Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
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