"Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth."

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Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good imitation of truth, as a perspective is of the reality, only in one. But truth, like that reality of which the perspective is the representation, will bear to be scrutinized in all points of view, and though examined under every situation, is one and the same.

— Charles Caleb Colton