Samuel Butler: 'Tis not antiquity, nor author, That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter .

'Tis not antiquity, nor author, That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter . — Samuel Butler

'Tis not antiquity, nor author, That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter .

Samuel Butler

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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. — George Orwell
Nuda veritas . ( Nudaque veritas ). — The naked truth. Horace
The greater the truth the greater the libel . — Attributed to Lord Ellenborough
What! Will you submit to give your country a master taken from a race, of origin — Napoleon
I have entered on an enterprise which is without precedent, and will have no imi — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The face we choose to miss, Be it but for a day— As absent as a hundred years Wh — Emily Dickinson
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Faites comme si je ne le savais pas. — Act as though I knew nothing. Molière
There is one river of truth, which receives tributaries from every side. — Clement of Alexandria