Fisher Ames (1758–1808) American politician
Niles' Weekly Register (7 May 1831) 40:163 http://books.google.com/books?id=jhEbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA163&dq=%22falsehood+proceeds+from+Maine+to+Georgia%22 <br class="br">Attributed
“Truth sits upon the lips of dying men,
And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.”
"Sohrab and Rustum" (1853), lines 656-657
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