"Tell all the Truth but tell it slant — Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surpriseAs Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind —"
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Emily Dickinson, Poem 1129: Tell all the Truth but tell it slant —
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