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Henry David Thoreau Quotes: Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.
         

Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.


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