“An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth—a fact that is recognized by the law of libel.”

—  Mark Twain

On the Decay of the Art of Lying http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2572/pg2572.html

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American author and humorist 1835–1910

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