GEMS OF THOUGHT
FALSEHOOD. Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. —D. Webster. No species of falsehood is more frequent than flattery; to which the coward is betrayed by fear, the dependent by interest, and the friend by tenderness.—Caleb B. Colton. The telling of a falsehood is like the cut of a sabre; for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain. — Saadi. By using falsehood to regain his liberty, Galileo virtually lost it. He cannot escape from barriers who commits his moral sense to a dungeon. —Mary Eaker Eddy. Falsehood, like the dry rot, flourishes the more in proportion as light and air are excluded. —Richard Whatley. Round dealing is the honour of man’s nature; and a mixture of falsehood is like alloy in gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it.—Francis Bacon.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 1943, Page 5
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