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Lying Quotes by Voltaire
- I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
- Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
- What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on...
- Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
- History is the lie commonly agreed upon.
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