We should not pour muck on ourselves.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
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