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A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.
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"Reason" is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
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I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
The Gunslinger (1982) 145 -
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
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100 million iphones don't lie. What an amazing man. He is the apple of all of our i's. We have an i everything and its all so amazing.
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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.
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A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
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A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world.
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
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A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
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A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure.
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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.
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A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
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