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Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.
Sep 17, 2025
If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.
No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.
Dear me. Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.
Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. "A lady does not read the newspaper. The society pages, perhaps, or the theater news. Not this filth." "But you are not a lady, Jessamine---," Charlotte began. "Dear me," said Will. "Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.
If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.
If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies.
As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.
Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.
I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.
I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.
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