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“Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends: for this reason I have spoken it.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.”

― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

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“Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

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