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 ‘They say so’ is half a LIE.
| Thomas Fuller | 
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A false modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a LIE. | Jean De La Bruyère |
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A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense
to know how to tell a LIE. | Samuel Butler |
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A harmful truth is better than a useful LIE. | Thomas Mann |
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A LIE can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. | Mark Twain |
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A LIE which is half a truth is the blackest of LIEs. | Alfred Tennyson |
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A mixture of a LIE doth ever add pleasure. | Francis Bacon |
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A poem records emotions and moods that LIE beyond
normal language, that can only be patched together
and hinted at metaphorically. | Diane Ackerman |
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An Ambassador is a man of virtue sent to LIE abroad for
his country; a news-writer is a man without virtue who
LIEs at home for himself. | Sir Henry Wotton |
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An ambassador is an honest man sent to LIE abroad for
the good of his country. | Henry Wotton |
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a LIE, for an
excuse is a LIE garded. | Pope |
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And custom LIE upon thee with a weight,
Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life! | William Wordsworti |
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some
sense to know how to LIE well. | Samuel Butler |
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Better a LIE that soothes, than a truth that hurts. | Czech Proverb |
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Earth gets price for what Earth gives us;
The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in,
The priest hath his fees, who comes and shrives us,
We bargain for the graves we LIE in;
At the devil’s booth are all things sold,
Each ounce of dross cos | James Russell Lowell |
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