“Major Major had lied, and it was good. He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.”
Source: Catch-22
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“An old dissembler who lived out his lie
Lies here as if he did not fear to die.”
"An Epitaph for Anyone", 1942 The Poems of J. V. Cunningham, edited by Timothy Steele, Ohio University Press/Swallow Press, 1997, ISBN 0-804-00997-X
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Source: The Postman (1985), Section 3, “Cincinnatus”, Chapter 5 (p. 200)

Jose Mourinho, 2009. http://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/jul/31/sir-bobby-robson-tributes

Serban Ghica, as quoted in John Sweeney, The Life and Evil Times of Nicolae Ceausescu (Hutchinson, 1991), p. 75
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Source: The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927), p. 160