For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought. (B. H. Liddell Hart)

For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.

B. H. Liddell Hart

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