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Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. – Lin Yutang

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I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking. – Lin Yutang

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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. – Lin Yutang

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Always tell the truth. Even if you have to make it up. – Author Unknown

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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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A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Do not do what you would undo if caught. – Leah Arendt

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