"He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas."
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"Honor and profit lie not all in one sack."
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"He that makes his bed ill, lies there."
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"He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth."
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"Hee that lies long a bed, his estate feeles it."
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"Honour and profit lie not in one sacke. [Honour and profit lie not in one sack.]"
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"It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose."
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"There's a fire that burns away the lies, manifesting in the spiritual eye."
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"Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire."
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"I was starting to realize the extent of the problem here: everyone is always lying to each other, and even when they're trying to tell the truth, it can still be misleading or wrong. In fact, it almost always is wrong from at least one angle. I mean, the truth is really just a better class of lie."
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"All day long, they lie in the sun, and when the sun goes down, they lie some more."
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"Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership."
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"The driving force of a nation lies in its spiritual purpose, made effective by free, tolerant but unremitting national will."
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"You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry. In my mind, I make a silent promise to my brother's killer. I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine."
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"to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine"
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"But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium."
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"How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!"
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"War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game."
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"We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?"
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"Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position."
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