Source: George MacDonald: an anthology
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“When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.”
“I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily”
“I keep reading between the lies.”
Source: The fine art of hypochondria; or, How are you?
“One always has the air of someone who is lying when one speaks to a policeman.”
“For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.”
Source: Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony
“Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”
“He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.”
Source: Works: Account of His Life and Letters
“Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.”