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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

· Lies and Lying

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There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.