Falsehood Quotes
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Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as detecting another in an untruth.-It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
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O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath; a goodly apple rotten at the heart!
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Round dealing is the honor of man's nature; and a mixture of falsehood is like alloy in gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it.
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Round numbers are always false.
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Some men relate what they think, as what they know; some men of confused memories, and habitual inaccuracy, ascribe to one man what belongs to another; and some talk on without thought or care. A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.
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The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.
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The lie of fear is the refuge of cowardice, and the lie of fraud the device of the cheat. - The inequalities of men and the lust of acquisition are a constant premium on lying.
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The telling of a falsehood is like the cut of a sabre; for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.
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There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.
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This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man.
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