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When in doubt tell the truth. (Mark Twain)[][]
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. (Alfred Lord Tennyson)[][]
A lie never lives to be old. (Sophocles)[][]
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. (Socrates)[][]
To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. (William Shakespeare)[][]
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. (Alexander Pope)[][]
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie. (Michel De Montaigne)[][]
An honest man is always a child. (Martial)[][]
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth. (Samuel Johnson)[][]
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another. (Homer)[][]
All truth is not to be told at all times. (Thomas Fuller)[][]
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade. (Lord Byron)[][]
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. (Samuel Butler)[][]
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. (Samuel Butler)[][]
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. (Samuel Butler)[][]
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