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The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
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Attributed without citation to Mark Twain as well as Garfield in recent years, this may have arisen sometime in the 1970s, with earliest publication yet located Pinochet's Chile : An Eyewitness Report, 1980/81 (1981) by Morna Macleod, p. 5.

 

James A. Garfield

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