Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communica…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Engell, Walter Jackson Bate (1984). Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, p.157, Princeton University Press
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