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Jonathan Swift

"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."

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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."

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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."

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"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

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

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

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"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

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

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"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."

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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

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"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."

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"Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high."

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"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind."
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"My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool."
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"Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction."
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"Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly."
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"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions."
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"Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room."
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"A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday."
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"Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes."
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"Every dog must have his day."
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