Quote by Joseph Addison
Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency. -

Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency. – Joseph Addison

Other quotes by Joseph Addison

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. – Joseph Addison

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Pleasure
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. – Joseph Addison

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Admiration
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. – Joseph Addison

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great
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Deception/Lying
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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. – Francis Bacon

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Deception/Lying

Matilda told such dreadful lies,
It made one gasp and stretch ones eyes;
Her aunt, who from her earliest youth,
Had kept a strict regard for truth,
Attempted to believe Matilda:
The effort very nearly killed her. – Hilaire Belloc

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Deception/Lying

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back. – Proverb

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Deception/Lying

It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth. – Robert Armstrong

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Deception/Lying

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