“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes”
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“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes”
“Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts, old age is slow in both”
“The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity”
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones”
“Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death”
“A lie travels round the world, while truth is putting on her boots”
“By perseverance the snail reached the ark”
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”