"In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable."

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"In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable."

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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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."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Sanity is a cozy lie."

Susan Sontag, American Author

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"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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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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"Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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