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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. – Walter Benjamin

Other quotes by Walter Benjamin

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. – Walter Benjamin

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Memory
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. – Walter Benjamin

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Good manners and plenty of money will make my son a gentlemen. – Proverb

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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. – Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living: Diaries

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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. – Malcolm Bradbury

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The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition. – Proverb

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