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“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 176ba3a1f0d581ba888bba804d269560838d34374469fa96ecb18e8c8ffa6440
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“So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.”
Plutarch
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”
William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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