I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking (the opening line of Goodbye To Berlin)
I swear to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth
I think therefore I am (philosophical comment by Rene Descartes)
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything (Mark Twain quotation)
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife (the opening line of Pride and Prejudice)
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