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No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Giving, Lasts
Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.