"The person of truth must be covered..." - Quote by Winston Churchill
The person of truth must be covered with bodyguards of lies.
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“Sunshine is my quest.”
“In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric fever. Better known as typhoid, the disease is often spread by drinking contaminated water.”
“I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
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“For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.”
“Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.”
“The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed”
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“Because this age and the next ageEngender in the ditch,No man can know a happy manFrom any passing wretch,If Folly link with EleganceNo man knows which is which.”
“My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.”
“Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.”