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Thoughtlessness, or heedlessness of the consequences of language
is the source of the greater portion of the evils inflicted by
it. Men are apt to speak without consideration of the
effect their words may produce upon those with whom they
are conversing – or who are within hearing.

Truth (it is said_ – ought not indeed to be spoken at all
times. But there is a dangerous ambiguity in the
aphorism – & hence it is often employed to a pernicious
purpose. It has two senses, one a bad, the other a good one.
Falsehood ought sometimes to be spoken – this is the bad
& perilous sense. Cases there are in which truth
ought not to be spoken. What then ought to be
spoken? Falsehood? No! Nothing at all. This is
the good sense. And this is the sense in which only
it should be employed as an aphorism by the moralist.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	521	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f206
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	hall
Marginals		Paper Producer	louis francois joseph le dieu
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	5737
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