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Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books. – W. H. Auden

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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat. – Proverb

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If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field. – Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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Truth fears no questions. – Unknown

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Who lies for you will lie against you. – Bosnian Proverb

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