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> [Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flora-lewis/truth-is-the-hardest-substance-in-the-world-to-pin-down-but-the-one/)

[Flora Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flora-lewis/)

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## More by Flora Lewis

> [Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flora-lewis/many-many-many-small-moves-of-many-kinds-can-bring-a-way-to-manage/)

[Flora Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flora-lewis/)

> [I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flora-lewis/i-consider-that-there-are-different-degrees-of-civilization-and-there/)

[Flora Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flora-lewis/)

> [There were the days of so-called free love ... but it didn't take long to discover that love is not free. Sooner or later…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flora-lewis/there-were-the-days-of-so-called-free-love-but-it-didn-t-take-long-to/)

[Flora Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flora-lewis/)

> [We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flora-lewis/we-have-learned-how-to-do-a-lot-of-things-we-must-try-to-relearn-why/)

[Flora Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flora-lewis/)

> [Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flora-lewis/learning-another-language-is-not-only-learning-different-words-for/)

[Flora Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flora-lewis/)

> [Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flora-lewis/truth-is-the-hardest-substance-in-the-world-to-pin-down-but-the-one/)

[Flora Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flora-lewis/)

> [Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flora-lewis/democracy-may-have-arisen-in-the-west-as-the-way-of-striving-for-the/)

[Flora Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flora-lewis/)

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