“No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs — the truth from the beginning. Make a clean breast to whomsoever you need to make it, and then — face the world.”
Ch 11
A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858)
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Dinah Craik 61
English novelist and poet 1826–1887Related quotes

"Gruppenführer Louis XVI", in A Perfect Vacuum (1971), tr. Michael Kandel (1978)

“I'd rather hear a truth that'll make me cry than a lie that'll make me smile!”
Original: (pt) Eu prefiro uma verdade que me faça chorar a uma mentira que me faça sorrir!