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• The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

  Ann Landers

  Positive, Witty, Truth

  Ann Landers (1996). “Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!: Advice, Wisdom, and Uncommon Good Sense”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

  Mark Twain

  Wise, Men, Doe

  Mark Twain, Susan K. Harris (1994). “Historical Romances: The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc”, p.115, Library of America

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• When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

  William Feather

  Children, Moral, Manners

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• A liar is always lavish of oaths.

  Pierre Corneille

  Liars, Deceit, Oath

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Le Menteur, III. 5, p. 485-87, 1922.

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• Half the truth is often a great lie.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Truth, Liberty

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.90, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

  Samuel Butler

  Pay, Kind, Compliment

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.197, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Believe, Men, Important

  Miguel de Unamuno (1928). “Mist Niebla: A Tragicomic Novel”

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• No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

  Paulo Coelho

  Truth, Honesty, Eye

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

  Aldous Huxley

  Truth, Honesty, May

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• It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Life, Relationship

  H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

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• There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational Sports, Science

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.28, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

  Bob Woodward

  Literature, Should, Hostility

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• Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

  Lin Yutang

  Life, Success, Thinking

  Yutang Lin (1935). “The Little Critic: Essays, Satire and Sketches on China (second Series: 1933-1935)”

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• Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

  Mark Twain

  Wise, Children, Adults

  Mark Twain (2008). “Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.41, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.

  Tennessee Williams

  Speech, Instant

  Tennessee Williams (1993). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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• For no falsehood can endure
  Touch of celestial temper.

  John Milton

  Endure, Temper, Celestial

  John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.296

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• Prophesying is lying professionally.

  Thomas Paine

  Religion

  Thomas Paine (1835). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: The Most Complete Edition Ever Published”, p.138

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• If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Honesty, Memories

  Mark Twain, Classics HD (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)”, p.2, Classics HD

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• Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Time, Party, Night

  Quoted in Barry Miles Ginsberg (1989), ch.5.

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• I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Disappointment, Anger, Past

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• It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

  Quintilian

  Memories, Liars, Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 485-87, IV. 2. 91, 1922.

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• The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.

  Augustus William Hare

  Liars, Mischievous, Verge

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.160

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• I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.

  Hermann Hesse

  Dream, Sweet, Stars

  Hermann Hesse (2012). “Demian: A Dual-Language Book”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• Lies About Love We are all liars, because The truth of yesterday becomes a lie tomorrow, Whereas letters are fixed, and we live by the letter of truth. The love I feel for my friend, this year, is different from the love I felt last year. If it were not so, it would be a lie. Yet we reiterate love! love! love! as if it were a coin with fixed value instead of a flower that dies, and opens a different bud.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Liars, Flower, Years

  David Herbert Lawrence (1994). “The Works of D.H. Lawrence: With an Introduction and Bibliography”, p.552, Wordsworth Editions

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• Lies are essential to humanity.

  Marcel Proust

  Humanity, Essentials

  1925 A' la recherche du temps perdu,'Albertine disparue'.

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