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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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Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books. – W. H. Auden

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

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Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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