WIST Quotations moves again!A quotation from Stevenson, Adlai:
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You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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Speech (1958-06-09), Commencement, Michigan State University, East Lansing - Stevenson, Adlai | WIST Quotations
You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.