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Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition- and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out ...more

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To know when to use the truth is the essence of successful deception

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The truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter.

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Please don't be too prejudiced against the poor thing because she's a liar. I do really believe that, like so many liars, there is a real substratum o...more

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Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don’t you?”“Of course I believe in the truth,” said Rhoda, staring.“Yes, you say that, but perhaps y...more

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There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c'est entendu, but nevertheless hy...more

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Mrs. Baker's social manner was almost robotlike in its perfection. All her comments and remarks were natural, normal, everyday currency, but one had a...more

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And families now, families who have been separated throughout the year, assemble once more together. Now under these conditions, my friend, you must a...more

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No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and dearest.

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I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

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The longer the time that has elapsed, the more things fall into proportion. One sees them in their true relationship to one another.

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The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. It is a qu...more