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• An easily-understood, workable falsehood is more useful than a complex, incomprehensible truth.
  -- Thumb's Second Postulate...
• He who conceals a useful truth is equally guilty with the propagator of an injurious falsehood.
  -- Augustine...
• Truth and falsehood are both whatever, and simultaneously not so, rather than not.
  -- Tim Larkin, March 31, 1993...
• People are more easily led than driven. -- David Harold Fink
• They begin with making falsehood appear like truth, and end with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
  -- Shensione...
• We have more useless information than ignorance of what is useful.
• Nothing is more useful than silence. -- Menander (B.C. 342-291)
• Persevering mediocrity is much more respectable, and unspeakably more useful than talented inconstancy.
  -- Dr. James Hamilto...
• LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper.
  In his character of editor he is closely allied to the blackmailer by the tie of occasional identity...