Falsehood Quote by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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“It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.”

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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

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Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.

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falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.

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A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]

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“Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one.”

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So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most…

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Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to…

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It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you…

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Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

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Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.

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