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“That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies; That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright; But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.”
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- Source:
- The Grandmother. Stanza 8.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a58d062037709d35dd25442069eda3c6b97ce258c497a32e1508321a0eb087fb
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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