“Pop, who maintained that a wise man could not be insulted, since truth could not insult and untruth was not worthy of notice.”

— Robert A. Heinlein, book Citizen of the Galaxy

Source: Citizen of the Galaxy (1957), Chapter 10 (p. 108)

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