“Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.”
Thomas Cooper (U.S. politician)
Lectures on the Elements of Political Economy, 1831.
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The Deliverance from Error https://www.amazon.com/Al-Ghazalis-Path-Sufism-Deliverance-al-Munqidh/dp/1887752307
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Benjamin Rush (1745–1813) American physician, educator, author
Provisions of the Last Will and Testament of Dr. James Rush http://books.google.com/books?id=lSowTqXCyyUC&pg=PA13&dq=%22dreaded+by+the+advocates+of+error%22&hl=en&ei=NCJGTP-fBJ-QnwfB8K2uBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=13&ved=0CGQQ6AEwDA#v=onepage&q=%22dreaded%20by%20the%20advocates%20of%20error%22&f=false
“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.”
Aldous Huxley book Brave New World Revisited
Source: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 11 (p. 104)
“Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.”
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