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[–] 4 points 1 year ago

A lie can make it halfway 'round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

A famous aphorism, which, ironically, is actually somewhat difficult to nail down attribution to a specific originator, due to essentially similar sentiment and phrasing being used by fairly notable people... for hundreds, or thousands of years.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/

https://interestingliterature.com/2021/06/lie-halfway-round-world-before-truth-boots-on-quote-origin-meaning/

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