"With a little bit of spirit in her system to help her weave the lies and facts together, Emily told the partial truth."

Deception, Truth, Lies, Spirit

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"With a little bit of spirit in her system to help her weave the lies and facts together, Emily told the partial truth."

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"A miracle focus culture is propagating wickedness."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"When you focus on miracles you will be manipulated."

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"Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"No one knows your success or failure best than your enemy who pretends to be your greatest friend."

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"If you want your lie to be believed then you need to speak thousand truths before you lie."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"In Swann's mind, however, these words, meeting no opposition, settled and hardened until they assumed the indestructibility of a truth so indubitable that, if some friend happened to tell him that he had come by the same train and had not seen Odette, Swann would have been convinced that it was his friend who had made a mistake as to the day or hour, since his version did not agree with the words uttered by Odette. These words had never appeared to him false except when, before hearing them, he had suspected that they were going to be. For him to believe that she was lying, and anticipatory suspicion was indispensable."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception."

Edward V. Lucas, American Writer

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"After spending the previous night the way I had, I felt I could afford to lose some of the daytime to sleep."

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"I'd been exposed to alternate ways of thinking and it seriously affected the way my mother had reared me."

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"She didn't want to alienate herself from the very wealthy man that was about to offer her a job by declining the polite offer of a drink."

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"Misadventure was my primary compass and I followed it without caring if I pissed off one person or a whole bunch of people."

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"I took her word and didn't let my concern for my future ruin the present moment."

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