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A tale's antiquity is a symptom of fable rather than evidence of its truth
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- Thomas Paine Pamphleteer and revolutionary (1737 to 1809)
It is not the antiquity of a tale that is an evidence of its truth; on the contrary, it is a symptom of its being fabulous; for the more ancient any history pretends to be, the more it has the resemblance of a fable.
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↗The Age of Reason, Parts I and II (1794-1795)gutenberg.org
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