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Thursday, September 05, 2013
Exposing Falsehood
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1859), p. 129:
You never need think you can turn over any old falsehood without a terrible squirming and scattering of the horrid little population that dwells under it.