“Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes
Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
The Temple (1633), The Church Porch
“It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.”
Quoted in The International Herald Tribune (19 September 2005).
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