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Isaac Bashevis Singer
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
It is a general rule that when the grain of truth
Isaac Bashevis Singer
William Shakespeare
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
William Shakespeare
Friedrich Nietzsche
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
That lies should be necessary to life is part and
Friedrich Nietzsche
Montaigne
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are
Montaigne
Montaigne
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do hi
Montaigne
H. L. Mencken
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innoce
H. L. Mencken
Langston Hughes
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Life is a system of half-truths and lies, / Opport
Langston Hughes
William Hazlitt
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment
William Hazlitt