A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for
fumigating the atmosphere, when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence,
breathes around me.
-- Carlyle
fumigating the atmosphere, when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence,
breathes around me.
-- Carlyle
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