We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
Tell the truth work hard and come to dinner on time.
With the end of the cold war all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism Nazism Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.