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When Truth Entails Tremendous Ruin, Lies Are Pardoned.
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When truth entails tremendous ruin, lies are pardoned.
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A man's ruin lies in his tongue. Egyptian Proverb
LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp.
Calcraft the Hangman. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it.
Said he, "That when they speak truth they are not believed....
Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all That shared its shelter perish in its fall.
-- William Pitt (1759-1806) -- The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, No. xxxvi...
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth exists. Only lies have to be invented. -- Georges Braque
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still.
Truth lies between extremes. -- Cecil...
Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.
-- Anon....