A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and

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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A half truth is a whole lie. – Yiddish Proverb

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The truth needs so little rehearsal. – Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

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It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. – Michel de Montaigne, translated from French

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