Lying

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"Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth." - Ashleigh Brilliant

"Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way." - SAMUEL BUTLER (d 1902), The Way of All Flesh

"The great masses of the people . . . will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one." - ADOLF HITLER, Mein Kampf

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all." - OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

"A liar needs a good memory." - QUINTILIAN, De Institutione Oratoria

"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation." - SAKI, The Square Egg

"A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble." - ADLAI E. STEVENSON, speech (1951)

"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives." - MARK TWAIN, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

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