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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 28792 |
| QUOTATION: | People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be “consistent.” |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894), U.S. writer, physician. The Professor at the Breakfast Table, ch. 2 (1860). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Holmes, Sr. Collection. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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