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

Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire. – Joseph Addison

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Age
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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. – Joseph Addison

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Business
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Deception/Lying
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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

Liars are always ready to take oaths. – Vittorio Alfieri

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Deception/Lying

A truth thats told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent. – William Blake

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Deception/Lying

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors. – Arabic Proverb

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Deception/Lying

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People have to remain positive and believe in those dreams. Its really important. – Kirsty Coventry

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Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain. – Lillie Langtry

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That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed. – Lyman Frank Baum

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Reason

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. – Ernest Hemingway

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Curmudgeonesque