Tell the truth and then run.


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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.
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Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.
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O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil.
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Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.
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I want people to tell me the truth.
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It feels so good to tell the truth.
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The truth, finally, is who can tell it.
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He said he wanted to tell the truth.
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To tell the truth, I'd scare me too.
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