There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

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• Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.
  William Hazlitt (1778...
• A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.
  James...
• An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
  Alexander...
• Better a lie that soothes than a truth that hurts.
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• Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory,
  To credit his own lie. -- William Shakespeare (1564...
• He who cannot lie doesn't know what truth is. --
  Friedrich...
• Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not
  the music...
• Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth,
  passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius...
• War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
  Desiderius Erasmus (1465...