The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice or many times, but in the cour… - John Stuart Mill

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The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice or many times, but in the course of ages there will generally found person to rediscover it, until some of its reappearances falls on a time when from favourable circumstances it escapes persecution until it has made such head as to withstand all subsequent attempts to suppress it.