Mark Twain on Defamation
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βIt takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.β
βAn injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truthβa fact that is recognized by the law of libel.β