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It is sometimes possible to tell nothing but the truth ; but the whole truth — never . Even Montaigne sometimes misleads ; even Rousseau , though unblushing in his exhibitionism , is quite untrustworthy . Pepys , indeed , and Boswell ...
It is sometimes possible to tell nothing but the truth ; but the whole truth — never . Even Montaigne sometimes misleads ; even Rousseau , though unblushing in his exhibitionism , is quite untrustworthy . Pepys , indeed , and Boswell ...
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I have a wonderful superstitious love of Mystery , when perhaps the truth is that it is owing to the cloudy darkness of my own mind ' ( March 20 , 1778 ) . The real truth is , perhaps , that Boswell was a Romantic ...
I have a wonderful superstitious love of Mystery , when perhaps the truth is that it is owing to the cloudy darkness of my own mind ' ( March 20 , 1778 ) . The real truth is , perhaps , that Boswell was a Romantic ...
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Its paramount duty is truth . But though it should tell nothing but the truth , it cannot possibly tell the whole truth . It must select , or die of its own unwieldy corpulence . The thoughts of a single day might burst a whole volume ...
Its paramount duty is truth . But though it should tell nothing but the truth , it cannot possibly tell the whole truth . It must select , or die of its own unwieldy corpulence . The thoughts of a single day might burst a whole volume ...
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The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1958 |
The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1958 |
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