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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 584 |
| AUTHOR: | William C. Redfield (1789–1857) |
| QUOTATION: | Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | WILLIAM C. REDFIELD, secretary of commerce, address at Case School, Cleveland, Ohio, May 27, 1915.—Ashley H. Thorndike, Modern Eloquence, vol. 7, p. 392 (1936). |
| SUBJECTS: | Facts |
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