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 Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. George Eliot (1819-1880)
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Daemon wrote:Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. George Eliot (1819-1880) The above quote comes from Adam Bede--Book Two--Chapter XVII--1859. The quote is in the fifth paragraph.In Which the Story Pauses a Little
So I am content to tell my simple story, without trying to make things seem better than they were; dreading nothing, indeed, but falsity, which, in spite of one's best efforts, there is reason to dread. Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. The pencil is conscious of a delightful facility in drawing a griffin—the longer the claws, and the larger the wings, the better; but that marvellous facility which we mistook for genius is apt to forsake us when we want to draw a real unexaggerated lion. Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings—much harder than to say something fine about them which is NOT the exact truth. Adam Bede--by George Eliot--1859
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Easy to commit, difficult to maintain.
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The former can be easy to handle, the latter very difficult to find.
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