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• A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

  Jonathan Swift

  Hype, Desire, Doe

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• The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Respect, Men, Brothers Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.582, e-artnow

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• I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

  Pietro Aretino

  Inspirational, I Love You, Boyfriend

  Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

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• The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

  Tennessee Williams

  Liars, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

  Tennessee Williams, John Patrick Shanley (2010). “The Rose Tattoo”, p.118, New Directions Publishing

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  People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Morning, Clever, War

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• Above all, do not lie to yourself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Respect, Occupy Yourself, Brothers Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.44, Macmillan

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• I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.

  Anne Rice

  Moral, Christianity

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• Of course there's objective truth, but when we're looking at people's accounts of it, it seems the real truth lies in the accretion of all these different versions.

  George Saunders

  Real, Different

  "George Saunders: It's All About Suckage-Avoidance". Interview With Doug Polisin, www.audible.com. March 15, 2017.

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• Over time, the repetition, Donald Trump's lies about election rigging, have become a form of background noise, more of the same. And this is a propaganda technique, whether Trump knows it or not.

  Brian Stelter

  Election, Propaganda, Repetition

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Advertising is legalized lying.

  H. G. Wells

  Advertising

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

  Stephen King

  Love, Friendship, Fake People

  "The Gunslinger". Book by Stephen King, 1982.

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• Above all, don't lie to yourself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Respect, Occupy Yourself, Brothers Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.96, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• An excuse is a lie guarded.

  Jonathan Swift

  Responsibility, Excuse, Guarded

  Jonathan Swift (1850). “The works of Jonathan Swift: containing interesting and valuable papers, not hitherto published ; with a memoir of the author”, p.837

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• Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Truth, Deceiving Others, Self Help

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Truth, Liars

  The Idler Feb. 1892, p. 118

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• There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

  Mark Twain

  Different, Bears, Neighbor

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.237, Courier Corporation

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• The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

  Stephen King

  Trust, Liars, Purity And Innocence

  Stephen King (2016). “Needful Things”, p.507, Simon and Schuster

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• Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

  Publilius Syrus

  Pain, Innocence, Innocent

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• The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Race, Lied

  Mark Twain (2002). “Mark Twain's Book for Bad Boys and Girls”, Mjf Books

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• The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Silence, Deceit

  "Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers". Book by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881.

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• A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote.
  A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat.
  So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.

  William Butler Yeats

  Drinking, Home, Beer

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• We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Wisdom, Lied, Lies Truth

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Blow, Fog, Wind

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• When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

  Donald James

  Truth, Democracies Have, Libertarian Party

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• Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying to put on its shoes.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Circles, Shoes, Trying

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