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Counterfeit truth

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

Author Greg RavenPosted on October 13, 2011November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories truthTags James Cardinal Gibbons

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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