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Jane Austen

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

Jane Austen

Truth

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Jane Austen is saying that people rarely tell the whole truth when they share information because their accounts often include some exaggeration or error. She suggests that human communication is naturally imperfect, with some distortion almost always present.

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