As scarce as truth is, the ...

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
 Josh Billings

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
 Josh Billings
I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
 Josh Billings
I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.
 Josh Billings
Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.
 Josh Billings
Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
 Josh Billings