the deduction that it is then a Virtue goes without saying
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lying is a necessity of our circumstances
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One ought always to lie, when one can do good by it;
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silent lie—the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth.
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What I bemoan is the growing prevalence of the brutal truth. Let us do what we can to eradicate it.
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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
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None of us could live with an habitual truth-teller; but thank goodness none of us has to.
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awkward, unscientific lie is often as ineffectual as the truth.