"What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?"

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Source : Marie Corelli (2015). “The Master Christian”, p.387, The Floating Press

Marie Corelli

#Truth Quotes #Lying Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but thatâ€™s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.”

Source : "Is There a Santa Claus?". The New York Sun, en.wikisource.org. September 21, 1897.
“I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.”
“But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to dig through libraries or travel to exotic lands to arrive at a view of our modern situation refracted through the lens of the preindustrial world, or the uncommercialized, unfranchised, perhaps unsanitized-and therefore supposedly more "authentic"-perspective ofthe Third World. Very simply, this is because that "other" world, as alien as if separated by centuries in time, is the one from which I came”
“Music kept me sane between acting jobs.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.”
“Our participation in the single market, and our ability to help set its rules is the principal reason for our membership of the EU. So it is a vital interest for us to protect the integrity and fairness of the single market for all its members.”
“The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce.”
“Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.”

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