Alexander Pope on Truth

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β€œTruth needs no flowers of speech.”
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β€œPlain truth, dear Murray, needs no flowers of speech.”
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β€œWhen truth or virtue an affront endures, Th' affront is mine, my friend, and should be yours.”
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β€œ'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.”
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β€œFarewell then, verse, and love, and ev'ry toy, The rhymes and rattles of the man or boy; What right, what true, what fit we justly call, Let this be all my careβ€”for this is all.”
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