“I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.”
Source: Let the Great World Spin
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Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
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Source: City of Ashes
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Jace to Clary, pg. 324
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Source: American Empire: The Victorious Opposition (2003), p. 274
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Mark Twain book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Notebook entry, January or February 1894, Mark Twain's Notebook, ed. Albert Bigelow Paine (1935), p. 240 http://books.google.com/books?id=DjBVlb7cBSIC&pg=PA240 <br class="br">Variant: If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory! <br class="br">Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn