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

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"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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

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Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."

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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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"The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet."

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

"A lie never lives to be old."

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"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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"A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well."

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"The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet."

"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 woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often."

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

"What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan."