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Quote by Lin Yutang
Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of p

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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Clothing
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Lin Yutang
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Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. – Lin Yutang

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When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. – Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

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The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always. – R.D. Laing

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Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it. – Emily Dickinson

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A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. – Charles Edward Montague, Disenchantment

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Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future. – Michael Palin

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