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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Truth, Light

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Football, Truth, Lying
1857-8 The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch.5.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Truth, Honesty, Iconoclasm
Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.117, Reprint Services Corporation

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