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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. - Hector Hugh Munro quote.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

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She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. - Margot Asquith quote.
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

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What does the truth matter?  Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast! - Georges Bernanos quote.
What does the truth matter?  Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

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All lies disgrace a gentleman, white or black; although I grant there is a difference.  To say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones. - Frederick Marryat quote.
All lies disgrace a gentleman, white or black; although I grant there is a difference.  To say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones.

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Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind. - Austin O'Malley quote.
Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

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The perjurer's mother told white lies. - Austin O'Malley quote.
The perjurer's mother told white lies.

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White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion. - William Paley quote.
White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.
William Paley The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy

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