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Falsehood Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.
- Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and…
- Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
- To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove, at least,…
- In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it; for no species…
- There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe…
- Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit…
- None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.
- It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
- Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply…
- Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
- Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood
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