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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling."

Lying Evil Wise
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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies."

Lying Law True Evil
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John Locke Philosopher, Physician
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"In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong propositions, but argue and reason right from them: but idiots make very few or no propositions, and reason scarce at all."

Ideas Lying Differences
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John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist
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"I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate."

Lying Loss Liars
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Joseph Campbell Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
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"Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. The damned thing in the cave that was so dreaded has become the center."

Lying Treasure Caves
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Joseph Conrad Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an overshadowed ocean, while the dazzling brightness of supreme hopes lies far off, fascinating and still, on the distant edge of the horizon"

Lying Ocean Twilight
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June Jordan Poet, Activist
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"Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law."

Writing Lying Brother
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John Muir Naturalist, Writer
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"If I should be fated to walk no more with Nature, be compelled to leave all I most devoutly love in the wilderness, return to civilization and be twisted into the characterless cable of society, then these sweet, free, cumberless rovings will be as chinks and slits on life's horizon, through which I may obtain glimpses of the treasures that lie in God's wilds beyond my reach."

Lying Sweet Civilization
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Marshall McLuhan Philosopher, Media Theorist
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"To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name."

Lying Names Cameras
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Homer Poet
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"It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair."

Men Lying Civilization
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"Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems."

Lying Study Red
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Mencius Philosopher
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"The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult."

Men Lying Journey
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