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“It is not truth that makes man great, but man that makes truth great.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0eaf09ce4413aaaa7aa0c66abc581bd7365ed8b93763d09eaf4c10ce95ebb42f
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“Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.”
Geoffrey Chaucer
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.”
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“The truth shall make you free.”
Unattributed
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.”
William Cowper
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“The gretest clerkes ben not the wisest men.”
Geoffrey Chaucer
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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