“There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!”
Source: Finnikin of the Rock
“There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.”
Lectures XIV and XV, "The Value of Saintliness"
1900s, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
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