Neatness, madam, has nothing to do with the truth. The truth is quite messy, like a wind blown room.

William J. Harris
Neatness, madam, has nothing to do with the truth. The...
Neatness, madam, has nothing to do with the truth. The...
Neatness, madam, has nothing to do with the truth. The...
Neatness, madam, has nothing to do with the truth. The...
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The truth is not tidy. It is a messy thing that people often try to hide or disguise. Sometimes you can’t even trust what you think you know because there is always more to the story. Neatness, on the other hand, is very tidy.

You can put things in neat boxes and draw neat pictures of how they fit together, but the truth is not clean and clear like a box or a picture. The truth is sometimes messy, always changing, and hard to pin down.

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