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Some marry the first information they receive, and turn what comes later into their concubine. Since deceit is always first to arrive, there is no room left for truth.
Baltasar Gracián, Aragonese Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher in Castilian language (1601-1658)
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The first casualty when war comes is truth.
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