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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Source: The Portrait of Mr. W. H., ch. 1 (first published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, July 1889).
-- Oscar Wilde, (Oct 16 1856-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist; He was noted for his flamboyant witty, sophisticated plays, e.g., The Importance of Being Ernest, 1895.

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