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• I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood
  and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him. -- Abraham Lincol...
• An easily understood, workable falsehood is more useful than a complex, incomprehesable truth.
• An easily-understood, workable falsehood is more useful than a complex, incomprehensible truth.
  -- Thumb's Second Postulate...
• Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
  -- Anthony Hope...
• Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
  -- A. Hope...
• They begin with making falsehood appear like truth, and end with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
  -- Shensione...
• Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do ingloriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength.
  Let her and Falsehood grapple: who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?...
• The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true
  by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful....