What was true 140 years ago almost, in 1891, is as just as true now, in 2026.
βI would ask any too genteel reader, who cannot endure to have said what everybody nowadays thinks and feels, to remember a well-worn sentence of St. Jeromeβs: If an offense come out of the truth, better it is that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.β
β Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman β Chapter 1 lix
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