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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....