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Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
-Samuel P. Huntington
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Partial Truths Or Half-truths Are Often More

Samuel P. Huntington
Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
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Biography always has fulfiled this role. robinson crusoe is a biography, as is tom jones. you can go through the whole range of the novel, and you will find it is biography. the only difference between one example and the other is that sometimes it's a partial biography and sometimes it's a total biography. clarissa, for example, is a partial biography of clarissa and a partial biography of lovelace. in other words, it doesn't follow lovelace from when he is in the cradle, though it takes him to the grave.
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There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. there are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. it doesn't work.
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So multifarious are the different classes of truths, and so multitudinous the truths in each class, that it may be undoubtingly affirmed that no man has yet lived who could so much as name all the different classes and subdivisions of truths, and far less anyone who was acquainted with all the truths belonging to any one class. what wonderful extent, what amazing variety, what collective magnificence! and if such be the number of truths pertaining to this tiny ball of earth, how must it be in the incomprehensible immensity!
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I'd seen a great many partial eclipses, but a partial eclipse has the same relation to a total eclipse as flirting with a man does to marrying him. it's completely different.
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Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and once uttered are sullenly supported.
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Both in verse and in prose [karl] shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths or half-truths or quarter-truths that will make anybody's hair stand on end; he is always crying: "but he hasn't any clothes on!" about an emperor who is half the time surprisingly well-dressed.
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