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My mother taught me to speak the truth, and took such pains with me that I should find it hard to tell a lie, though I could invent many a story these servants would believe at once; for the truth is a strange thing here, and they don't know it when they see it.

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  1. noun Conformity to fact or actuality.
  2. noun A statement proven to be or accepted as true.
  3. noun Sincerity; integrity.
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  • The truth does the opposite... Of course, sometimes it seems like the truth is the last thing we want. —  The Cold Moon
  • His instinct for the truth is always on the qui vive.—C. —  Our Friend John Burroughs
  • Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty. —  Antiwar.com Original
  • They will gladly tow the party line, and shill out any "truth", but the truth is they know they are shilling lies as truth under the guise of a "news" show. —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
  • "Our people badly need a free press capable of protecting the truth," he said, noting that the truth was all that could counter the "terrorist procedures against patriotic Palestinians." —  GayandRight
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  1. Middle English trewthe, loyalty, from Old English trēowth; see deru- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also, in a form now differentiated, troth, q. v.; from Middle English truthe, treuthe, trewthe, treuwethe, treouthe, treowthe, etc., also trouthe, trowthy, from Anglo-Saxon treówthu, treówth (treówth-, treóth-) (= Old High German *triuwida, in comp., = Icelandic try¯ggth), truth, faith; with formative -th, from treówe, true: see true.
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