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“What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)