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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."
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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."
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"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."
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"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."
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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 most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."
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"Sanity is a cozy lie."
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"They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out."
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"I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms."
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"I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I."
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"To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers."
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"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."
Money
"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."
Death
"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."
Doubt
"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
Architecture
"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."
God
"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
Virtue
"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."
God
"A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget."
Friendship
"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."
People
"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
Man
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