Show TRUTH OF intercourse the cruelest crudest lies are often told in silence A man m may ay have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend fiend or a vile calumniator and how many loves have perished because bs cause from pride or spite or diffidence or that unmanly shame which withholds a man from daring to betray emotion a lover at the critical point in the relation has but hung his head and held his tongue and again a lie may be told by a truth or a truth conveyed through a lie truth to facts is not always truth to sentiment senty nent and part of the truth as often happens in answer to a question ion in may ay be the foulest calumny robert louis stevenson |