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“It is not permissible to lie merely to save one's face. But it is sometimes permissible to lie to save another person's face.” quote by Katharine Fullerton Gerould — Download Open image

“It is not permissible to lie merely to save one's face. But it is sometimes permissible to lie to save another person's face.”

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.

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Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.

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All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

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I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies.

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Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily…

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