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In a free and open encounter, truth is not put to the worse by falsehood
Drawn from what John Milton said
What John Milton actually said
- John Milton English poet and polemicist (1608 to 1674)
Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.
Where this was said
↗Areopagitica (1644)gutenberg.org
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