Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings — much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.


Adam Bede (1859)

George Eliot Quotes

Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about...

Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about...

Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about...

Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about...