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0863
“Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.” — Plutarch
DISHONESTY, Sin, God

0864
“He who tells a lie is not sensible to how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.” — Alexander Pope
DISHONESTY, Honesty

0865
“He who has not a good memory, should never take upon him the trade of lying.” — Michel de Montaigne
DISHONESTY, Politics

0866  P
“The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.” — George Bernard Shaw
DISHONESTY, Honor

0867  PA
“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
DISHONESTY, Sin

0868
“Every time you try to smother a truth, two others get their breath.” — Bill Copeland
DISHONESTY, War & Peace

0869
“Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
DISHONESTY, Ignorance, Doubt

0870  CH
“The louder he talked of his honor the faster we counted our spoons.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
DISHONESTY, Honor

0871  H
“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.” — Samuel Butler
DISHONESTY, Honesty

0872
“It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.” — H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken
DISHONESTY, Communication

0873  C
“If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.” — Italian Proverb
DISHONESTY, Honor

0874
“There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.” — Lord Halifax
DISHONESTY, Principles

0875  H
“A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.” — Saki
DISHONESTY, Communication

0876  C
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” — Abraham Lincoln
DISHONESTY, Politics

0877  H
“I never knew an auctioneer to lie, unless it was absolutely necessary.” — Josh Billings
DISHONESTY, Principles

0878  H
“To build is to be robbed.” — Samuel Johnson
DISHONESTY, Principles

DISHONESTY Cross-References
Excellence—67 • Errors—318 • Knowledge—520 • Vision—654-655 • Honesty—776, 785-786 • Conscience—965 • God—996-997 • Sin—1029 • Business—1051-1052, 1059 • Sciences—1083, 1090-1091, 1094, 1101 • Authority—1125 • Leadership—1134 • Competition—1166, 1185, 1187, 1190 • Politics—1233, 1240-1241, 1245 • Government—1282 • Law—1313 • Family & Friends—1362, 1364, 1368