“I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.”
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 9.
“Do not believe what I tell you here any more than if it were some tale of a tub.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fourth Book (1548, 1552), Chapter 38.
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