" I fancy you may tell the truth about yourself. But all of it? The black truth, which we all know ourselves in our hearts, or only the whity-brown truth of the pericardium, or the nice, whitened truth of the shirtfront? Even you [Mark Twain] won't tell the black heart's-truth. The man who could do it would be famed to the last day the sun shown upon. "
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![William Dean Howells quote : I fancy you may tell the truth about yourself. But <i>all</i> of it? The black truth, which we all know ourselves in our hearts, or only the whity-brown truth of the pericardium, or the nice, whitened truth of the shirtfront? Even <i>you</i> [Mark Twain] won't tell the black heart's-truth. The man who could do it would be famed to the last day the sun shown upon.](/image/1238206.jpg)