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Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

A lie cannot live.