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... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.
-John Stuart Mill
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John Stuart Mill
... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.
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