We Gave Him All The Regular Ones - The Time-honoured Lies That Have Done Duty Up The River With Every Boating-man For Years Past - And Added Seven Entirely Original Ones That We Had Invented For Ourselve

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We gave him all the regular ones - the time-honoured lies that have done duty
up the river with every boating-man for years past - and added seven entirely
original ones that we had invented for ourselves, including a really quite
likely story, founded, to a certain extent, on an all but true episode, which
had actually happened in a modified degree some years ago to friends of ours -
a story that a mere child could have believed without injuring itself much.
-- Jerome K. Jerome, "Three Men in a Boat"

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