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Mark Twain

On the Decay of the Art of Lying

  • Marian Rioshas quoted2 years ago
    the deduction that it is then a Virtue goes without saying
  • Marian Rioshas quoted2 years ago
    lying is a necessity of our circumstances
  • Marian Rioshas quoted5 years ago
    One ought always to lie, when one can do good by it;
  • Marian Rioshas quoted5 years ago
    silent lie—the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth.
  • Marian Rioshas quoted5 years ago
    What I bemoan is the growing prevalence of the brutal truth. Let us do what we can to eradicate it.
  • Marian Rioshas quoted5 years ago
    The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
  • Marian Rioshas quoted5 years ago
    None of us could live with an habitual truth-teller; but thank goodness none of us has to.
  • Marian Rioshas quoted5 years ago
    awkward, unscientific lie is often as ineffectual as the truth.
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