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We find the fiercest things that live, 
The savage boor, the wildly rude, 
When soothed by Mercy's hand, will give 
Some faint response of gratitude. 
A species of Solarium (S. dulcamara), a slender, climbing plant, 
whose root, when chewed, produces first a bitter, then a sweet taste. 
T ruth—T ruthfulness. 
“My mouth shall meditate truth and my lips shall hate wickedness.”—Prov. viii, 7 
''’pRUTPI is the very bond of society, without which society must cease 
to exist, and dissolve into anarchy and chaos. 
A household cannot be governed by lying; nor can a nation. 
Of all mean vices, perhaps lying is the meanest. It is in some cases 
the offspring of perversity and vice, and in many others of sheer moral 
cowardice. 
Yet many persons think so lightly of it, that they will order their 
servants to lie for them. Can they feel surprised if, after such ignoble 
instruction , they find their servants lying for themselves ? 
Lying assumes many forms, such as “diplomacy,” “expediency,” 
and mental restriction; and, under one guise or another, it is found more 
or less pervading all classes of society. 
“There are even men of narrow minds, and dishonest natures,” as 
an observant author remarks, “who pride themselves upon their clever¬ 
ness in equivocation, in their serpent-wise shirkings of the truth and get- 
