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Emily Dickinson 187
American poet 1830–1886Related quotes

“To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.”

“Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.”
Fragment xi.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments

“Tell me a story of deep delight.”

“This Story may
Delightful be to tell another day.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Context: Jack: That, my dear Algy, is the whole truth pure and simple.
Algernon: The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
Act I
Often quoted as "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."

St. 1
Song: Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley/17889 (1821)