Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies. ✨ c.186…

Emily Dickinson
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Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies. ✨ c.1868 Complete Poems, no.1129 (first published 1945).
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Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies. ✨ c.1868 Complete Poems, no.1129 (first published 1945).

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