Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
MOST LIES succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
The worse part of being lied to is when you realize you believed it.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.
And she did not miss his presence so much as his voice on the phone. Even being lied to constantly, though hardly like love, was sustained attention; he must care about her to fabricate so elaborately and over such a long stretch of time. His deceit was a form of tribute to the importance of their marriage.
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