If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

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About A. A. Milne

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Alan Alexander Milne ( ; 18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English writer best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as children's poetry. Milne was primarily a playwright before the huge success of Winnie-the-Pooh overshadowed his previous work. He served as a...

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For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

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More quotations tagged with “lying”

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

Boys will lie, cheat, and steal to get into your pants. A man will stand the test of time. Make him wait, and you'll see which one he is.

—Penelope Douglas in Falling Away

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.

—William Shakespeare

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

—Marguerite Duras

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I'm so tired of people lying to me. Do I not deserve the truth? Do I look like someone who can't handle it?

—Kasie West in Split Second

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