truth
A selected quote by John Churton Collins.
A man who posed as an authority on all the literatures of the world, and on the history of every nation in the world, would be very justly set down as an impostor.
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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things
If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning
The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced
... when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth