Value truth, however you come by it. Who would not pick up a jewel that lay on a dunghill?

James Burgh (1714-1775) British politician and writer
The Dignity of Human Nature, Sec. 5 “Miscellaneous Thoughts on Prudence in Conversation” (1754)
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