“I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it. And besides, I have lived with liars so long that I have lost the tune, & a fact jars upon me like a discord.”

— Mark Twain

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3 (2015), p. 435

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