Three Hundred Æsop's Fables/Truth and the Traveller

by attr. Æsop

 

TRUTH AND THE TRAVELLER.

A wayfaring Man, travelling in the desert, met a woman standing alone and terribly dejected. He inquired of her, "Who art thou?" "My name is Truth," she replied. " And for what cause," he asked, "have you left the city, to dwell alone here in the wilderness?" She made answer, "Because in former times falsehood was with few, but is now with all men, whether you would hear or speak."

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