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The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
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Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
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Truth is the daughter of time.
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Aulus Gellius
Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is.
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Sir William Draper
But O the truth, the truth. The
many eyes
That look on it! The diverse things
they see.
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George Meredith (1828 - 1909)
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
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William Penn (1644 - 1718)
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
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J. D. Salinger (1919 - ), The Catcher in the Rye, opening line
I'd the upbringing a nun would envy and that's the truth. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.
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Joe Orton (1933 - 1967), Entertaining Mr Sloane (1964)
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
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George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Little Essays (1920) "Ideal Immortality"
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
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Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, first line
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