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Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Sep 28, 2025
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.
The truth is more important than the facts.
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Who lies for you will lie against you.
A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.
If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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