"He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech."

Lie, Evil, Silence, Speech

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"He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech."

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Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

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Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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Samuel Butler, British Poet

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