Persian Proverb Quotes
A falsehood resulting in conciliation is better than a truth producing trouble
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Persian Proverb, Quoted in Shaykh Sa’di, Gullistan, 13th Century
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See Ben Franklin for an earlier similar sentiment {465143}.
This quote comes from Goebbels' text "Churchill's Lie Factory" and is believed to be the paraphrased source of the commonly misattributed quote in {583627}.
Armstrong observed that the notion was not original with him but with Edmund Burke. See {610721}.
This sentiment was apparently first expressed by the English Calvinist Minister, Charles Spurgeon, 1834-1892.