“The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies”
Source: Keeping Faith
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“The truth will set you free — but first it will make you miserable.”
Attributed without citation to Mark Twain as well as Garfield in recent years, this may have arisen sometime in the 1970s. The earliest discovered citation is a poster in a residential treatment program for alcoholics in Syracuse, New York, [ http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/04/truth-free/ described in a 1978 newspaper article]. Another early publication is is found in Pinochet's Chile : An Eyewitness Report, 1980/81 (1981) by Morna Macleod, p. 5
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“If you love something, set it free; if it comes backs it's yours, if it doesn't, it never was.”