Hawthorne and His Mosses (1850)
“If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of douts of my own.”
“Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.”
Source: Harriet the Spy
Bush, S.F., Nanoscale Communication Networks, 2010, 308 pages, Artech House; 1 edition (February 28, 2010) ISBN-10: 1608070034, ISBN-13: 978-1608070039.
“There are plenty of fish in the sea, if I run out of women.”
A Softer World
Quoted in Henry Pringle (1939), The Life and Times of William Howard Taft.
Attributed
“Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.”
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
Source: His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000), Ch. 32 : Morning
Context: One of the ghosts — an old woman — beckoned, urging her to come close.
Then she spoke, and Mary heard her say:
"Tell them stories. They need the truth. You must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories."
That was all, and then she was gone. It was one of those moments when we suddenly recall a dream that we’ve unaccountably forgotten, and back in a flood comes all the emotion we felt in our sleep. It was the dream she’d tried to describe to Atal, the night picture; but as Mary tried to find it again, it dissolved and drifted apart, just as these presences did in the open air. The dream was gone.
All that was left was the sweetness of that feeling, and the injunction to tell them stories.
James Burgh, in The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
Misattributed
