"Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you."

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"Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you."

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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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"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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"There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"Very sorry can't come. Lie follows by post."

Lord Charles Beresford, British Politician

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

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

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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

"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."

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

"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."

"There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables."

"Very sorry can't come. Lie follows by post."

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"Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember."

"A man is known by the silence he keeps."

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"Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure."

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