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You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth.
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Value truth, however you come by it. Who would not pick up a jewel that lay on a dunghill?
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Do not sit dumb in company; it will be ascribed either to pride, cunning, or stupidity: give your opinion modestly, but freely; hear that of others with candour; and ever endeavour to find out, and to communicate truth.
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If you mean to make your side of the argument appear plausible, do not prejudice the people against what you think truth by your passionate manner of defending it.
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In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent: so you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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James Burgh
Born:
1714
Died:
1775
(aged 61)
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