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• Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe.

  Thomas Hardy

  Believe, Eye, Looks

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)”, p.131, Diversion Books

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• I don’t know. What do people see when they gaze at the sky? Inspiration? Beauty?” She heard him sigh. “Truth be told, this view always intimidated me. The sky’s so vast. I can’t help but feel it has expectations of me. Ones I’m already failing.” He was silent for a long moment. “It reminds me of your eyes.

  Tessa Dare

  Inspiration, Eye, Views

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• Oppressors in front of the Lord, truth be told shall inherit oppression, while others receive gold.

  Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

  Soul, Gold, Oppression

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• All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Crowns, Fool

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1647, Bantam

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• You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Bible, Jesus

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• Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Truth, Honesty

  "The Critic as Artist". Book by Oscar Wilde, 1891.

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• Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.

  Mark Udall

  Climbing, Hiking, Gears

  "Support Net Neutrality to Preserve a Free and Democratic Internet" by Mark Udall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2011.

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• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Being Yourself

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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• If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

  Virginia Woolf

  Inspirational, Honesty, Lying

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3151, Delphi Classics

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• The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.

  Martin Filler

  Successful, Cities, Expansion

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• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Cheating, Funny Inspirational

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.43, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• But truth be told, I'm not as dour-looking as I would like. I'm stuck with this round, sweetie-pie face, tiny heart-shaped lips, the daintiest dimples, and apple cheeks so rosy I appear in a perpetual blush. At five foot four, I barely squeak by average height. And then there's my voice: straight out of second grade. I come across so young and innocent and harmless that I have been carded for buying maple syrup. Tourists feel more safe approaching me for directions, telemarketers always ask if my mother is home, and waitresses always, always call me 'Hon.

  Sarah Vowell

  Mother, Heart, Home

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• I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off.

  George R. R. Martin

  Cutting, Men, Truth Is

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three”, p.99, Bantam

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• It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Life, Relationship

  H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

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• If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.

  Isa Blagden

  Truth, Lying, Interesting

  "The crown of a life". Book by Isa Blagden, 1869.

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• Truth be told, John said, the one thing in this world I want more than anything else is a great big crowbar, to jimmy myself open and take whatever creature that's sitting inside and shake it clean like a rug and then rinse it in a cold, clear lake like up in Oregon, and then I want to put it under the sun to let it heal and dry and grow and sit and come to consciousness again with a clear and quiet mind.

  Douglas Coupland

  Lakes, Oregon, Mind

  Douglas Coupland (2001). “Miss Wyoming”, p.58, Vintage

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• If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

  Jesse Ventura

  Inspirational, Memories, Truth

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• When in doubt tell the truth.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Truth, Honesty

  Following the Equator ch. 2, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• There is no difference between alternative and traditional club comedy. People think there's a difference, but I don't think so. It's like gay men versus straight men. There's no difference. They both like sucking penises. But truth be told, I don't even believe alternative comedy is a real thing anymore. I think at this point, it's just a buzz word to make things seem cool and different and hip.

  Brent Weinbach

  Real, Believe, Gay

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

  James A. Garfield

  Teacher, Encouragement, Strong Women

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• A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 53

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• The question that a lot of people ask me all the time is how did you make it? The truth be told, it was nothing but the grace of God.

  Tyler Perry

  People, Grace, Truth Is

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  But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

  Howard Zinn

  Revolutionary, Telling The Truth, Saying The Truth

  Howard Zinn (1999). “Marx in Soho: A Play on History”, p.4, South End Press

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• Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

  Austin O'Malley

  Truth, Honesty, Liars

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• Jesus beckons me to follow him to that place of weakness where I risk the vulnerability of a child so that I might know how strong my Father is and how much he loves me. But truth be told, I would rather be an adult. I'd rather be in a place where I can still pull things together if God doesn't show up, where I risk no ultimate humiliation, where I don't have to take the shallow breaths of desperation. And as a result, my experience of my heavenly Father is simply impoverished.

  Gary Haugen

  Jesus, Strong, Children

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