Part 140 (2/2)

1959

TRUTH, CONTRASTED WITH FALSEHOOD

I once asked a deaf and duer forward in a straight line I then asked hier Try to reo you on in your course as straight as an arrow to its mark, and shrink from falsehood, as you would from a viper

--_Barnaby_

1960

Truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be loved needs only to be seen

Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen

--_Pope_

1961

The dignity of truth is lost With

--_Ben Jonson_

1962

Not to believe the truth, is of all ills the worst

1963

ILL-JUDGING

A woman stopped a divine in the streets of the metropolis with this salutation: ”There is no truth in the land, sir! There is no truth in the land” ”Then you do not speak the truth, good woyman ”Oh, yes, I do,” returned she, hastily ”Then there is truth in the land,” rejoined he, as quickly

1964

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me

--_Sir Walter Scott_