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• Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way – who husbands it too carefully to waste it where it can be dispensed with.

  Samuel Butler

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  Tags in Lies, Instinct

• Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Lies, Ideas

• We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

  Tad Williams

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• Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in History

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• The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

  Joseph Addison

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  Tags in Follies, Fallow, Lies, Single

• The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.

  Paul Frederic Bowles

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• I keep reading between the lies.

  Goodman Ace

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  Tags in Newspapers, Lies, News

• The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Topics in Ability, America

  Tags in Greatness, Lies, Repair

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Topics in Honesty

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• In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

  Stephen Leacock

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  Tags in Statistics, Lies, Fall

• The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

  Joseph Addison

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• Common fame seldom lies.

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• The end of an ox is beef, and the end of a lie is grief.

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• History is a set of lies agreed upon.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Topics in History

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• Telling lies does not work in advertising.

  Stanisław Jerzy Lec

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  Tags in Advertising, Lies

• Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Least, Untrue, Lies

• The continued utterance of a lie does not make it true, but it does convince many that it is, particularly if you can squelch most efforts to expose the lie.

  Shapley R Hunter

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• I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

  Jean Cocteau

  Topics in Honesty, Truth

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• Figures never lie, but liars often figure.

  Samuel Butler

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• Oh, what lies there are in kisses.

  Heinrich Heine

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