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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Some people will not tolerate such emotional honesty in communication. They would rather defend their dishonesty on the grounds that it might hurt others. Therefore, having rationalized their phoniness into nobility, they settle for superficial relationships. – Author Unknown

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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you cant keep that which belongs to someone else. – Edgar Cayce

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Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened. – Winston Churchill, “ear-witness” quoting c.1936 about Stanley Baldwi

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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. – Thomas Carlyle

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