For instance,--what is the use of informing a man of a true fact but to induce a true opinion in him?
But if, by clinging to the exact letter of the fact, you create a false opinion in his mind, as I should do in my father's case, if by telling him at once of my change, I gave him an unjust horror of Catholicism,--you do not tell him the truth.

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You may speak what is true to you,-- but it becomes an error when received into his mind.