We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.
Samuel Butler
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Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way – who husbands it too carefully to waste it where it can be dispensed with.
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Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
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