Truth Comes Back

Crystal: Once upon a time Utopia was in just such a tangle… But there is a proverb, 'Truth comes back where once she has visited.' You need not trouble so much as you do. Some day even your press may grow clear.

Crystal Men Like Gods (1923) by H. G. Wells

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Context: A Utopian boy consoles Mr. Barnstaple after his tirade against the lies of Earth's newspapers.

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Source: Men Like Gods, Book the Third, Chapter the Second (A Loiterer in a Living World), Section 3

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