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You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.

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The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.

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These principles laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never tell a lie to a man, but one may to a woman; that one must never cheat any one, but one may a husband; that one must never pardon an insult, but one may give one and so on. These principles were possibly not reasonable and not good, but they were of unfailing certainty, and so long as he adhered to them, Vronsky felt that his heart was at peace and he could hold his head up.

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The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

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When a house is tottering to its fall, The strain lies heaviest on the weakest part, One tiny crack throughout the structure spreads, And its own weight soon brings it toppling down.

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O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep.

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Now all the youth of England are on fire, And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies; Now thrive the armorers, and honor's thought Reigns solely in the breast of every man.

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To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.

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Truth is not always in a well. In fact, as regards the more important knowledge, I do believe that she is invariably superficial. The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.

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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.

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Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.

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Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

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The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.

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For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .

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The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

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We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.

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The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

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You will never learn what I am thinking. And those who boast most loudly that they know my thought, to such people I lie even more.

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How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!

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It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

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