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I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

The lie is a condition of life.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

O’ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.