Never lie when the truth is more profitable.


Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
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The weakest link in the chain is also the strongest. It can break the chain.
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All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.
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Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.
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Truth never was indebted to a lie.
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When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
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I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.
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A smart boyfriend never lie neither say the truth.
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No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
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The first requisite for immortality is death.
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Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.
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The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
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He who limps is still walking.
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The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. - Unkempt Thoughts, 1962.
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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
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I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth.
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UNKNOWN
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The cold absolute truth is much more preferred than a kind and uncertain lie.
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Hurt me with the truth but never comfort me with a lie.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.
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I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.
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He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth
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A man's private thought can never be a lie; what he thinks, is to him the truth, always
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Once

...Why
...lie?
...when
...truth is
...the easier path
ELLEN HOPKINS
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SHAKIRA
When lie is being exhibited & the truth looks elsewhere, it means it has sold it'd birthright.
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NEVER LIVE A LIE
BECAUSE
"THEY"
WON'T ACCEPT YOUR TRUTH!
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Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.
ASHLEIGH
Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Sickness is lie,but health is the truth.
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