“There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!”
Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock
Source: Finnikin of the Rock
“An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded”
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eighteenth century English poet 1688–1744Related quotes
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