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“Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Church Porch.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c20470c0d84500c9b61855c720a0230fd88a463a10d5a9de88c9abf2fe4b6a95
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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