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  1. George Eliot

    The clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers
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  2. Mary Karr _ The Liars' Club

    Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild...
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  3. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Silmarillion

    But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead."
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  4. John Steinbeck _ East of Eden

    Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. Most liars are tripped up either because they forget what they have told or because the lie is suddenly faced with an incontrovertible truth. But Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also -- either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth as though it were a lie. If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths.
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  5. Orson Scott Card _ Xenocide

    Today, one of the brothers asked me: Is it a terrible prison, not to be able to move from the place where you're standing?You answered...I told him that I am now more free than he is. The inability to move frees me from the obligation to act.You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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  6. Herman Melville _ The Enchanted Isles or The

    ...oaths and anchors equally will drag: naught else abides on fickle earth but unkept promises of joy.
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  7. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Silmarillion

    But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.
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  8. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Revolving Door of Life

    Sociopaths are attracted to politics because the see it as a sphere in which you can be ruthless and step all over people. That fact that some politicians can tell such awful lies is another example of sociopathy. Sociopaths lie-they see nothing wrong with it.
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