George Eliot quote about truth from Middlemarch - the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
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the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
 George Eliot, Middlemarch (1872). copy citation

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Author George Eliot
Source Middlemarch
Topic truth weapon
Date 1872
Language English
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Context

“«Pelting is nothing to their finding holes in one's coat,» said the Rector. «I confess that's what I should be afraid of, if we parsons had to stand at the hustings for preferment. I should be afraid of their reckoning up all my fishing days. Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.»
«The fact is,» said Sir James, «if a man goes into public life he must be prepared for the consequences. He must make himself proof against calumny.»
«My dear Chettam, that is all very fine, you know,» said Mr. Brooke.” source

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