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«The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie»
Author: Ann Landers
(Advice columnist)
| About:
Lies,
Truth
| Keywords:
dressed, get dressed, lie, naked
«The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.»
«The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.»
«The end of an ox is beef, and the end of a lie is grief»
«The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Lies
| Keywords:
exception, lying, relatively, The Exceptions
«The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Lies
| Keywords:
believed, in the least, least, liar, punishment
«The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
America and Americans,
Government,
Lies,
Men,
Truth
| Keywords:
admire, American, American people, daring, detest, detested, detesting, detests, extravagantly, liars, The American, The Men, violently
«The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.»
«The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.»
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