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False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
Source: The Count, in Les Soirpes de Saint-Pptersbourg, First Dialogue, 1821.
-- Joseph Marie De Maistre, (Apr 1 1753-1821), French diplomat, writer; He became, after being uprooted by the French Revolution, a great exponent of the conservative tradition.