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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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This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought. – Lin Yutang

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No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. – 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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Confessed faults are half-mended. – Scottish Proverb

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You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. Leviticus 19:11 – Bible

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The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall off his own bluff. – Ambrose Bierce, Epigram. (c.1906) Quoted by Ralph Alfred Habas, Morals for Moder

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