"Fear not those who argue but those who dodge" — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

... when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth

Source: The Sign of the Four (1890)

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife

Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

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