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Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.
Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.
Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.
Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
And none speaks false, when there in none to hear.
And none speaks false, when there in none to hear.
Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.
Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced read more
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should read more
A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be known.
For my part getting up seems not so easy
By half as lying.
For my part getting up seems not so easy
By half as lying.
Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies;
And sure he will; for wisdom never lies.
Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies;
And sure he will; for wisdom never lies.
