Lord Mansfield: Ingenuity is one thing, and simple testimony another, and plain truth, I take it, needs no flowers of speech.

Ingenuity is one thing, and simple testimony another, and plain truth, I take it — Lord Mansfield

Ingenuity is one thing, and simple testimony another, and plain truth, I take it, needs no flowers of speech.

Lord Mansfield

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