"Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true."

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"Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true."

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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"A lie never lives to be old."

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Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

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Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions."

Christopher Lasch, American Historian

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