A half-truth is more pernicious than a lie.
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Half-truth
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Everything is a fraud or half-truth.
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The Minister no doubt would claim that the public has already expressed its opinion by deserting the trains. As we have said before, this is scarcely a half-truth. By and large, where there has been a decline the public has deserted the out-dated trains; [...].
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