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Political truth.

--M. de Talleyrand, when reproached by a friend for certain diplomatic finessing usually attributed to him, replied: ‘"There is nothing in the sphere of politics so hard to get believed as the truth.--Whenever I have revealed the pure and simple truth, I have always been suspected of dissimulation & I have always been believed when I have resigned myself to the necessity of concealing it I that the first statesman who shall have the moral courage in hour by hour, all that he thinks and or that he knows, will create for himself the proportion of being the most consummate hyper artist."’

The Daily Dispatch: November 24, 1860. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. November 24, 1860. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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