“In society's eyes the virtue of saying the right thing at the right time is more important that the virtue of telling the whole truth, or even of telling the truth at all.”

—  Northrop Frye

"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 6: The Vocation of Eloquence

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Canadian literary critic and literary theorist 1912–1991

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